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WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception trailer Watch the full film Here: http://www.joiningthedots.tv/main.aspx?level=&content=369438050&search=weapons Emmy Award-Winning Danny Schechter, 'the News Dissector', a 30-year media veteran and former ABC News and CNN producer, is the first professional journalist to make a feature-length independent film and write a book exposing media failures. Schechter's sixth book on media issues, Embedded: WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception investigates collusion between the military, giant media companies and the government. It goes inside the 'media war', and explains why Senator Robert Byrd is right in saying 'The media fell for it, hook, line and sinker'. Schechter adds an outsider's perspective to an insider's experience in turning the cameras on the role the news networks played in distorting news and turning the military campaign into 'mili-tainment'. Schechter's film includes never-before-seen footage from Iraq, insider information about Pentagon information warfare strategy and a report about torture at Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison that predates the US network stories by eight months. The film investigates the embed program, 'infiltrates' Fox News and takes a global approach to analyzing coverage. A year in the making, WMD represents guerrilla filmmaking without any backing from major media conglomerates. As timely as today's headlines, WMD comes on the heels of an admission by the New York Times that its pre-war coverage was deeply flawed, a view seconded by Michael Getler, ombudsman of the Washington Post. WMD adds to a growing debate within the U.S. news business about its coverage that differed dramatically from reporting seen around the world. 'We have heard a lot of 'chatter' about 'intelligence failures' and 'policy failures', says outspoken director Schechter, an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter and one time Nieman Fellow in Journalism: 'Now it's time to look at media failures because the Bush Administration could never have won support for its deceptive policies if the media had not been complicit'. WMD was the first film to ask how was the Iraq invasion sold? Danny's emphatic delivery demonstrates how many of us, including this reviewer, were suckered into supporting an unwinnable war. WMD encapsulates why the big government/big media alliance succeeded and why it is so dangerous to a functioning democracy. The film was critically savaged as unpatriotic when it was first offered but is now required viewing for journalists, historians, soldiers and sociologists.

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Uploaded: May 12th, 2008 @ 4:26 pm
Author: mercurymediaJTD

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