When News Lies Media Complicity and The Iraq

When News Lies is the untold story of media war behind Iraq; the American government's efforts to manipulate war coverage; and the media's own timidity and reluctance to do its job-report the news to the public.Veteran author, video journalist, and media critic, Danny Schechter, takes us on a sometimes frightening, sometimes humorous journey behind the scenes of the media machine that sold us Operation Iraqi Freedom.This innovative new publishing format includes the full length DVD of Danny's award winning and controversial documentary, WMD-Weapons of Mass Deception.

Danny Schechter brings an insider's experience to his outsider's perspective. A CNN and ABC News veteran, Schecter has worked as a journalist for over 30 years in mainstream and alternative media. Schechter draws on his own experiences to talk about what's wrong with the media and how to fix it.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Prologue	p. xvii
Preface	p. xxv
Preface II	p. xxix
Opening Salvo	p. 1
Challenging the Mainstream: From Blogs to Books to Docs	p. 9
Countdown to War	p. 22
Enter WMD	p. 24
Media on Trial: Are Media Mistakes Accidental or Criminal?	p. 29
The Tribunal-Testimony of Danny Schechter to the World Tribunal on Iraq	p. 42
Assessing Media Wrongs	p. 42
There Was a Media War	p. 44
Post-Vietnam Media Management	p. 46
Media Cover-ups and Complicity: Crossing the Line	p. 53
Ministry of Newsspeak	p. 60
Critics and Cover-ups	p. 65
The Strategy Comes Home	p. 67
The Media Is the Issue: Challenging the War Is Not Enough	p. 79
Transforming the Media	p. 97
Memo to the President	p. 102
Draft-Confidential State of the Media 2005 Address for GWB	p. 104
The Making of the Film WMD: The Inside Story	p. 109
Production Hell	p. 111
Finishing the Film	p. 116
Epilogue	p. 121
Biography	p. 131
Script of the Film WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception	p. 137
Glossary	p. 241
Who's Who in WMD	p. 243
Comments/Reviews of Film	p. 249
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