"The MediaChannel will undoubtedly be worth watching and taking part in. I am intrigued by its potential, and its global reach. The idea that so many leading groups and individuals around the whole world have come together to share resources and information about a wide range of media concerns is very promising, and I urge you to make the MediaChannel your media 'bookmark' and your portal to the Internet."
—Walter Cronkite, Former Anchor, CBS News
"It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of Danny Schechter's MediaChannel. At a time when the alienation of the public has reached new heights as a result of the continuing manipulation and deceptions of the media, the value of a news source that takes its readers seriously, respects their intelligence and desire to know what is happening in the world, let alone what is being done in their name, can hardly be overemphasized."
—Irene Gendzier, Professor,
Department of Political Science,
Boston University
"I must say I am very impressed with the balance of reportage. I know that in UK & Europe this should go down well as markets are desperate for balanced opinions -- especially as the public (finally) wise up to their government's news manipulation! Hope you are finding opportunities within the States too!"
—James Logan, London, England
"Your website as a place to go for "alternative" news is the best one I know of. It's one that I send students to now. I tell them that they can go just about anywhere with it via your linkage."
—Bill Willers Biology Dept.,
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
"I have been making use of the site by accessing information on many significant issues for my professional obligations. I must thank you and your colleagues for this wonderful and very meaningful initiative."
—Alok Verma, New Delhi, India
"MediaChannel is a must-stop web site in my view. I don't know what I would do without it."
"I just wanted to tell you what I great idea I think MC.org is and that we have tremendous support for the work that you're doing! It's truly becoming a collaborative, collective effort that is being facilitated in many positive ways by MediaChannel. Much respect as always."
"I want to personally thank all who make Media Channel possible for the incredible work you do and resource you provide to us all. I use it quite often. More important... just having it there gives me a place to turn to for alternative media coverage, insightful analysis of media, and teaching resources to boot. Bravo to you all. Makes me feel like community/independent/ alternative media is not just alive and kicking but kicking ass."
—Jesikah Maria Ross, South Africa
"The idea in general is one of the most pioneering projects that I have seen lately!"
—Sebastian Karban,
International University Bremen,
Germany
"I refer my students to this website for research as well as encourage them to read/subscribe to it… It's got timely and necessary information that we don't get in the mainstream media and I look forward to reading and passing it along. Thanks for being there!"
—Kay Hawkins,
Oxnard College English Dept.,
Oxnard, CA
"As a documentary filmmaker I try to keep up with the ebb and flow of the media and the Media Channel is an enormous help. The breadth of its hard news coverage is astonishing and its interpretive pieces are mighty insightful. MC makes a big contribution to the Web's stature as our best defense against those who would keep us in the dark."
—Al Levin, Maplewood, NJ
"MediaChannel connects us to a global network of potential colleagues, collaborators and supporters. By providing a portal to a global network of media issues and organizations, MediaChannel.org gives citizen-consumers much needed, independent perspectives on media and a chance to fight back."
—George Gerbner, Ph.D.,
Dean of American Media Critics
"The MediaChannel has filled an important need, delivers a quality product, shows amazing growth and I hope it goes on forever."
"Thank you again, World Service. There is a reason I have been a listener for 30 years. Now I have an additional portal for information more likely to be worthy of trust."
—Letter to the BBC World Service
"I've been using Mediachannel.org and now find it invaluable... It's a terrific, and important, site."
"I would like to congratulate you for your excellent daily critiques of US media coverage. Many people from this region rely on CNN coverage and we have been disturbed by the pro-war slant they have taken. I circulate some of your comments to over 100 journalists, media students and editors in this region. So your critiques are getting wide coverage here in this region. Keep up the great work."
—Anil Netto, Coordinator,
Charter 2000 (Citizens Media Initiative),
Malaysia
"Martha Gellhorn said the point of journalism was that 'any form of keeping the record is better than just letting things drift away'. Without the MediaChannel, so many of our concerns about the media would be in danger of just drifting away. To have a record of critical coverage, as provided by the MediaChannel, is the equivalent of sticking a piece of tape across the glass. It alerts us to the fact that someone has put a frame around a reality that includes some things and excludes others."
—Jake Lynch, TV reporter, SKY News London
"We find the MediaChannel very useful at our Journalism programme."
—David Robie, Journalism Coordinator,
University of the South Pacific
>University of the South Pacific<
"There are a dozen organizations, a number of them funded far more lavishly than the MediaChannel, that claim to be dedicated to press freedom. The Media Channel, with its smaller staff, and with the wider mission of also exposing the conflicts and unethical behavior of corporate media, simply does a better, more thorough and rapid job of posting - in the daily Media News briefs - any attack on the press that happens in the world. The amazing thing is that this is only one of their tasks. I marvel at how they get it done."
"From its coverage of global issues ignored by The New York Times, to the much-anticipated columns of Danny Schechter, the News Dissector, the MediaChannel is always on the mark. Its unique recipe of alternative information and analysis, links to hundreds of worldwide media sites, a chat room for reader participation and even a regular column on culture makes the MediaChannel one of those rare media Web sites that give me hope in the Internet's long-term potential to enhance our democracy."
"Through the Reebok Human Rights Award and our business and human rights programs, we contribute to programs that promote a more just and humane world. That is one of the reasons that we support MediaChannel. MediaChannel's vision, to bring about ethical media reform, is an important part of promoting a more just and humane - and informed community that will respect rights. We hope others will join in supporting MediaChannel's important and powerful goal."
