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Now Available
Danny Schechter's book that inspired WMD the film, "Embedded:
Weapons of Mass Deception," is a blow by blow
dissection of the news media coverage of the war in Iraq. Read a
preview or buy the book online. Your
purchase supports MediaChannel.org. For the News Dissector's earlier works,
please visit Dissectorville.
"This is the best book to date about how the media covered the
second Gulf War or maybe miscovered the second war. Mr. Schechter on
a day to day basis analysed media coverage. He found the most arresting,
interesting, controversial, stupid reports and has got them all in this
book for an excellent assessment of the media performance of this war. He
is very negative about the media coverage and when you read this book you will
see why he is so negative about it. I recommend it. " -- Peter
Arnett
"I'm your biggest fan in Iraq. Your book is amazing. Amazing. I started reading it last night and I haven't been able to... stop reading. I spent the night sitting up in front of the computer, reading page after page. I only stopped when the electricity went off and then I tried sleeping- but sleepwouldn't come because I kept thinking of some of the things you had written-especially about the embedded journalists. ... I hope it sells 3 million copies and that it becomes required reading everywhere. Not for your sake, for our sake and the sake of all the ignorant people out there. I don't know how many fans you have- or how many you will eventually have but I mean every single word. I lived through that incredible lie." -- Riverbend, Iraqi Blogger, Author of "Baghdad Blogging" |
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| WELCOME TO WMD THE FILM:
Featuring Danny Schechter's new book "When News Lies:Media Complicity and the Iraq War"
There may have been no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, but there were media Weapons of Mass Deception. This is the website that connects you with a way to order and learn more about Danny Schechter's film, WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception). Its all here: the DVD, the reviews, essays, photos and promotional tools. Help us get the word out. The democracy we save may be our own.
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"A comprehensive and devastating critique of the TV news networks' complacency and complicity in the war on Iraq... brilliantly argued and scrupulously documented... a must see" -- Chicago Reader
"More cohesive and devastating than Fahrenheit 911" -- Boston Phoenix
“Searing... Powerful" -- Sacramento Bee
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Academy Award Winner Tim Robbins narrates the trailer for Globalvision's WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception).
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Was there a connection between the US media's war coverage and the FCC? Did the US media wave the flag so the government would waive media ownership rules? Here's an excerpt from WMD:
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Synopsis
There were two wars going on in Iraq - one was fought with armies of soldiers, bombs and a fearsome military force. The other was fought alongside it with cameras, satellites, armies of journalists and propaganda techniques. One war was rationalized as an effort to find and disarm WMDs - Weapons of Mass Destruction; the other was carried out by even more powerful WMDs, Weapons of Mass Deception. << Read More>>
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The Deceived Wisdom: Danny Schechter and the fifth columnistas of the mainstream American media
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Monday, 20 June 2005
By Tom
Gogola
The New
Haven Advocate
Danny
Schechter, who is coming to town on Friday to discuss his latest film, is an old
hand from the New Left days, a rabblerousing media "news dissector" who has also
had runs in the mainstream media, at CNN and at ABC's 20/20. He once famously
approached Henry Kissinger and asked him how he would plead if charged with a
war crime. Nowadays he runs Globalvision, a TV and film-production
company.
And the 62-year-old
Bronx native just comes right out and says it: "Without the media cheerleading,
we wouldn't have had this war." |
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A Million-Word March for Media Reform
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Monday, 16 May 2005
By Danny Schechter
MediaChannel.org
ST. LOUIS, MO., May 15 — Outside the window was the great Arch of Exploration, St. Louis's national monument honoring Thomas Jefferson and his patronage of the Lewis and Clark expedition that mapped out our continent for major change back in the early days of the 18th century.
In these early days of the 21st century, alongside the banks of the same Mississippi River, two modern day Lewis and Clarks — one a scholar named Robert McChesney, the other a journalist called John Nichols — invoked the unfinished promise of Jeffersonian democracy to convene a second National Conference on Media Reform to energize an emerging citizens' movement to explore how to take back our media. |
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Monday, 25 April 2005
Don't be fooled by the spin on Iraq. If you think Iraq has turned the corner and violence is diminishing, you should pay a visit to the battleground. Violence is 'off the chart' in area on Iraq border and the Northern Capital is stalked by Suicide Bombers. There were 15,527 attacks on coalition forces, largely American, from July 2004 to late March 2005. Some 2,404 attacks took place in Baghdad from November 1 to March 12. Coalition forces are now confronted with ‘an extremely mature and capable insurgency’ and there is no exit strategy in sight. Here we give an in-depth blow-by-blow account of the fighting on the ground in Iraq. [read report] |
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