Danny Schechter
DANNY SCHECHTER, 'The News Dissector' has spent decades as a truth tellerin the media, with leading media companies and as an independent filmmakerwith the award-winning independent company Globalvision. A graduate ofCornell and the London School of Economics, Schechter was a Nieman Fellowat Harvard and a multiple Emmy Award winner at ABC News, where he wasamong the first to cover the S&L crisis. In 2007, his film IN DEBT WE TRUST wasthe first to expose Wall Street’s connection to subprime loans, predicting the economic crisis that this book investigates. Schechter is a blogger, editor of Mediachannel.org, and author of nine books. He has reported from 53 countries, and lives in Gotham. He owns no derivatives or tranches.