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News Dissector: Is Media Harming Democracy?
April 17, 2008
Danny Schechter executive editor, MediaChannel.org

Danny Schechter explores the rapidly changing ways in which we receive our information. He believes that media, the field in which he has worked for four decades, is harming our democracy. Are the major news corporations doing more harm than good? Can independent media, empowered with the tools of a technological revolution, do any better?

Recording contributed by Hartley Pleshaw.

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