http://www.MEDIAED.org

This hard-hitting documentary
investigates why so many
Americans - college and high
school students in particular
- are being strangled by debt.
Zeroing in on how the mall has
replaced the factory as
America's dominant economic
engine, Emmy Award-winning
former ABC News and CNN
producer Danny Sche
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http://www.MEDIAED.org

This hard-hitting documentary
investigates why so many
Americans - college and high
school students in particular
- are being strangled by debt.
Zeroing in on how the mall has
replaced the factory as
America's dominant economic
engine, Emmy Award-winning
former ABC News and CNN
producer Danny Schechter shows
how college students are being
forces to pay higher interest
on loans while graduating, on
average, with more than
$20,000 in consumer debt. The
film empowers as it enrages,
delivering an accessible and
fascinating introduction to
what former Reagan advisor
Kevin Phillips has called 'the
debt-and-credit industrial
complex.'

About Danny Schecter:

Danny Schechter is a
television producer and
independent filmmaker who also
writes and speaks about media
issues. He is the author of
Falun Gong's Challenge to
China, The More You Watch, The
Less You Know, and News
Dissector: Passions, Pieces
and Polemics. He is the
executive editor of the
MediaChannel.org, the world's
largest online media issues
network.

Schechter is co-founder and
executive producer of
Globalvision, a New York-based
television and film production
company now in its 13th year,
where he produced 156 editions
of the award-winning series
South Africa Now, co-produced
Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights
Television with Charlayne
Hunter-Gault. His most recent
human rights production,
Globalization and Human Rights
was co-produced with Rory
O'Connor and shown nationally
on PBS.

Schechter received his
Master's degree from the
London School of Economics and
an honorary doctorate from
Fitchburg College. He was a
Nieman Fellow in Journalism at
Harvard, where he also taught
in 1969. After college, he was
a full time civil rights
worker and then communications
director of the Northern
Student Movement, worked as a
community organizer in a Saul
Alinsky-style War on Poverty
program, and, moving from the
streets to the suites, served
as an assistant to the Mayor
of Detroit in 1966 on a Ford
Foundation grant. Schechter
was a producer for CNN and a
producer for ABC's 20/20,
where during his eight years
he won two National News
Emmys.

Schechter was an adjunct
professor at the Graduate
School of Journalism at
Columbia University. His
writing has appeared in
leading newspapers and
magazines including the The
Nation, Newsday, Boston Globe,
Columbia Journalism Review,
Media Studies Journal, Detroit
Free Press, Village Voice,
Tikkun, Z, and many others.

Category News & Politics

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