Weapons of Mass Deception
WMD, a 100 minute non-fiction film, explores this story with the findings of a gutsy, media insider-turned-outsider, former network journalist, Danny Schechter, who is one of America’s most prolific media critics.
Schechter says he “self-embedded” himself in his living room to monitor media coverage, by fastidiously tracking the TV coverage on a daily basis.
He wrote thousands of words daily about the coverage for Mediachannel.org, the world’s largest online media issues network, and then collected his columns, blogs and articles in a recently published book, EMBEDDED: Weapons of Mass Deception (Prometheus Books).
He has continued his one-man investigation with WMD, a two-hour indie non-fiction film that asks the questions that his media colleagues refused to confront before, during and after the war. Featuring footage from inside Iraq, and inside the media, WMD tracks the media war through February 2004. (Excerpt from wmdthefilm.com)
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This is one of the best documenteries I’ve seen yet on this topic. This is what journalism is all about. I really like it’s objective and rational tone. Kinda like if Alex Jones took a qualude.
Not much mention about “operation mockingbird”, although, still a good, informative, piece.
Bush senior “we’ve kicked Vietnam syndrome once and for all” followed by applause…
Great video!…I feel like doing away with television all together since it’s so censored. I beg to ask the question what happens when they censor what we do on the Internet?
Nice to know George Bush was right afterall. The liberal agenda lost and once again proved *****’s
We always fall for it… We always buy the deception… We just love it… as long as it’s presented well… We are treated like ******…. But, we don’t deserve any better…
great doc. shows how news media is controlled by political and financial motives…
You can’t form a reasonable understanding about any issue without having access to accurate and relevant information. I feel that the media is controlled by too few people, who make decisions based primarily on monetary and political concerns, and that they do the public a tremendous disservice by providing us with inaccurate and irrelevant information, suppressing facts and restricting the boundaries of debate. I think that for most people, education continues through adulthood primarily by way of television, newspapers, magazines, radio and movies. There aren’t many who regularly read non-fiction books on subjects of great importance such as information dissemination, and they can hardly be blamed for their ignorance, their blind faith and their patriotism. They want to create nations of obedient consumers, not intellectual activists, and they’re doing a great job of it.
some biased point of view shown n shouted out of every fridge aint right. it just cant be – its all black n white – u absorb what SOMEONE wants u to…is that what YOU choose?
Only wish TV programs were like this!!!
I think this is a brilliant piece of work, thanks for shearing it.
brilliant documentary. thank you!
“Blow up your TV throw away your papers…” John Prine. Most people are suckers for deception and propaganda That’s what keeps America Almighty. Luckily I am better read and not influenced by the tainted media. This documentary informed me what I already knew… Money and Power controls the capitalistic world we live in. Its time for a Global revolution. Bring out the guillotine…
“It’s Operation Iraqie Liberation tell me what does that spell? OIL” ha ha great song!
Get rid of your TV Bklyn. You’ll feel better in no time.
Bush and Blair are war criminals and should be brought to justice. Along with the rest of their cronies.
http://www.makewarshistory.org.uk/index/accounting-for-genocide.html
What is most unreal about this is the possibility that the US military (a) used illegal weapons (cluster and napalm like bombs), and (b) targeted non-embedded journalists. Westerners grow up believing we, at the least, play fair and tend to the good but it would seem what we have really learned best is how to close our eyes and minds to the real harm our governments and institutions inflict on others and, in the end, on us.
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Well, well, is the main stream media attempting to divert our attention from reality ? Say it isn’t so,.. Oh my F**king God !