Barrie Zwicker

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Barrie Zwicker
Born
Barrie Wallace Zwicker

(1934-11-05) November 5, 1934 (age 89)
activist

Barrie Wallace Zwicker (born November 5, 1934) is a

activist
.

He is best known for his documentary work, which has dealt primarily with 9/11 conspiracy theories.

Biography

Barrie Zwicker was born in White Haven, Nova Scotia. His family soon moved to Manitoba, and Zwicker's earliest work in journalism was with the Russell Banner, a local newspaper in Manitoba, at the age of 16. He went on to study journalism at University of Michigan. In 1967, Zwicker earned a Southam Fellowship allowing him to work with media analysis pioneer, Marshall McLuhan at St. Michael's College.

Zwicker became a staff writer at a variety of newspapers in Canada and the United States, including

awards
with the Education Writers' Association of North America.

Zwicker also taught the Media and Society course at

media critic since the multifaith network's inception in the fall of 1988, until 2003.[1]

Zwicker and Dick MacDonald edited The News: Inside the Canadian Media, in which Zwicker argued that there was a "terrible sameness" in the media's coverage of many important issues, and a shutting out of other, potentially valuable, perspectives and sources of information. Zwicker took over as publisher of Content magazine founded by MacDonald in 1970. He continued his media criticism in the pages of Content and subsequently in the pages of

reporters and researchers. In 1994, he created a Canadian government directory called Parliamentary Names & Numbers.[2]
He subsequently sold these publications in 1999.

In 1983 Zwicker wrote War, Peace, and the Media, a 48-page pamphlet which argued that Canadian and American press coverage of the USSR was unbalanced, "creating a stereotype of a country that is the embodiment of everything evil, with which it is impossible to have civilized dealings or to conclude rational agreements, notably on arms control. The result of the press coverage is to push people to the conclusion that the only way to deal with the USSR is to engage in an arms race that can only result in eventual war."[3]

Alternative viewpoints and 9/11 conspiracy works

The End of Suburbia

He was involved in making the video

Vision TV,[4]
and earned a number of awards from local film and video festivals for his contributions.

The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw

The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw is a 70-minute sequel to The Great Deception.

War on Terrorism" is a public control mechanism. He also analyses the military breakdown on 9/11 and claims that the president and his aides acted entirely inappropriately that day. Throughout, mainstream media is accused of being either compliant or complicit with a cover-up
.

Other accomplishments
  • In 1996, he founded a media relations newsletter and Web site called HotLink.
  • In 1991, he was awarded an honorary membership in the Media Club of Canada.

References

  1. ^ End of Suburbia Archived February 7, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Parliamentary Names & Numbers - Guide to Governments in Canada". www.sources.com.
  3. ^ "War, Peace and the Media". www.connexions.org.
  4. ^ "The End of Suburbia".
  5. ^ "TGC: THE GREAT CONSPIRACY". www.greatconspiracy.ca.

External links

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