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There
were two wars going on in Iraq. One was fought with 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.
The TV networks in America promoted their non-stop coverage of
the military action, proudly pointing to the use of embedded journalists
and new technologies that permitted viewers to get carefully selected
close-ups of the war. While other countries saw a different version
of the war, those of us watching in the U.S. got an around-the-clock
global media marathon that raises as many questions about the
methods of TV news as it does the armed intervention it was covering.
Award-winning
journalist Danny Schechter investigates the "information
dominance" strategies of the war-makers, and the deceptive
role of the media in reporting on — and in some cases promoting
— the invasion of Iraq
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Co-sponsored
by American Friends Service Committee Iraq Committee
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