Documentary Description
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.
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
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