WMD : weapons of mass deception

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Title:

WMD : weapons of mass deception

Alternate title:

Weapons of mass deception

Author:

Pizarro, Anna, producer.

Robbins, Tim, 1958- narrator.

Bach, Nenad, composer.

Schechter, Danny, producer, director.

Polarity 1 (Musical group)

Vortex (Musical group)

Doors (Musical group)

Globalvision (Firm)

Doc Workers (Firm)

Cinéma libre (Firm)

Summary:

"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 remove WMDs, Weapons of Mass Destruction; the other was carried out by even more powerful WMDs, Weapons of Mass Deception." -- container.

Audience:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

General Note:

Originally produced as a documentary film in 2004.

Based on the book, Embedded-- weapons of mass deception : how the media failed to cover the war in Iraq by Danny Schechter.

DVD extras: Trailer (narrated by Tim Robbins); Interview with Danny Schechter; "News Dissector" news retrospective, 1968-2004; "Get Involved" resources: Websites and books to make a difference.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Subject Term:

Iraq War, 2003 -- Mass media and the war.

Author(s):

Added Corporate Author:

Polarity 1 (Musical group)

Vortex (Musical group)

Doors (Musical group)

Globalvision (Firm)

Doc Workers (Firm)

Cinéma libre (Firm)

Publisher:

Doc Workers,

Publication Date:

2005

ISBN:

9781595870223

Publication Information:

[United States] : Doc Workers, c2005.

Call Number:

DVD 070.4 WMD

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Self-described "news dissector" Danny Schechter, who has worked as a producer for a number of major broadcast media outlets (including CNN and ABC News), examines news coverage of the war in Iraq in this activist documentary. In WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception, Schechter explores how the U.S. military and George W. Bush's advisors "stage managed" the Iraq war in order to win a favorable opinion from the public and keep the media's eyes away from issues and situations they found problematic, from using savvy psychology to convince citizens that Iraq possessed certain weapons it never actually had, to "embedding" journalists with companies of troops to produce reports sympathetic to the ground forces. WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception was named Best Documentary in Texas at the 2004 Austin Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi