Wmd: Weapons Of Mass Deception

Subtitled "A Danny Schechter Dissection," this 90-minute essay from "news dissector" Schechter is an angry analysis of news coverage of the 2003 American war on Iraq and the extent to which the media served the military's interests. By his own account, "network refugee" Schechter, who once worked as a reporter and producer for CNN, ABC News and 20/20, has been obsessively "warring with the coverage of war" since his days as reporter in Vietnam and Cambodia, critiquing the way war was reported even as he himself was covering it. Schechter reflects on the ways Vietnam-era correspondents like Peter Arnett and David Halberstam challenged the powers that be, and the now-h...