Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception : How the Media Failed to Cover the War on Iraq by Danny Schechter

Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception : How the Media Failed to Cover the War on Iraq



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Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception : How the Media Failed to Cover the War on Iraq Danny Schechter
Language: English
Page: 286
Format: pdf
ISBN: 1591021735, 9781591021735
Publisher: Prometheus Books

From Publishers Weekly

News hound Schechter (Media Wars; The More You Watch the Less You Know; etc.) opines on WMDs ("Weapons of Mass Deception") in this impassioned indictment of the news media's coverage of the recent war in Iraq. Among his beefs are the civilian casualties that were "rarely shown in the western media," the way the coverage "sold the war even as it claimed to be just reporting it," and the media's poor-and in some cases absent-portrayal of the war protests, which he says were "the largest global protests in history." Calling the President "Daddy Bush" and using other colloquial terms, Schechter presents his thoughts in a diary-like form, dating his thoughts as the war progresses and interjecting questions (for himself and for readers) throughout. For skeptics and those unhappy with the way Americans learned of what was happening in Iraq, this is an energetic but deeply discouraging study.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

"In this compelling inquiry, Danny Schechter vividly captures two wars: the one observed by embedded journalists & some who chose not to follow that path, & the 'carefully planned, tightly controlled & brilliantly executed media war that was fought alongside it,' a war that was scarcely covered or explained, he rightly reminds us. That crucial failure is addressed with great skill & insight in this careful & comprehensive study, which teaches lessons we ignore at our peril." - Noam Chomsky "Once again, Danny Schechter has the goods on the Powers That Be. This time, he's caught America's press puppies in delicto, 'embed' with the Pentagon. Schechter tells the tawdry tale of the affair between officialdom & the news boys-who, instead of covering the war, covered it up. How was it that in the reporting on the 'liberation' of the people of Iraq, we saw the liberatees only from the gun hole of

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