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Van Zandt became interested in writing a song about Sun City to make parallels with the plight of Native Americans. Danny Schechter, a journalist who was then working with ABC News' 20/20, suggested turning the song into a different kind of "We Are the World", or as Schechter explains, "a song about change not charity, freedom not famine."
Danny Schechter, Newsday (November 3, 1993) [7] Schechter joined the start-up staff at CNN as a producer and later was a producer for the ABC newsmagazine 20/20 , responsible for 50 segments of the program; he won two Emmy Awards and was nominated for two others including for a 1983 investigation of President Reagan's plans to fight and recover ...
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[3] Schechter suggested that Van Zandt include the names of the artists who had played at Sun City in defiance of the cultural boycott on South Africa imposed for its policy of apartheid. "I was probably still thinking of 20/20's exposé of conservative Africanists 15 years earlier", says Schechter. [citation needed]
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Solomon Schechter (Hebrew: שניאור זלמן הכהן שכטר ; 7 December 1847 – 19 November 1915) was a Moldavian-born British-American rabbi, academic scholar and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of American Conservative Judaism.
Schachter, Schächter or Schechter (from Yiddish shochet, 'to slaughter'. Hebrew :שכטר also Shechter) is a Yiddish and German surname. Notable people with the surname include: