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Directed by: Danny Schechter
Country:
United States
Runtime: 0hr 58min
Year: 2004
Last Screened:
Wed 1st Feb 2006
WMD focuses on the role played by the Pentagon propaganda machine and the media in the Iraq War.
Media critic, Danny Schechter’s hard-hitting dissection of information warfare asks if the media was complicit in the selling of the Iraq War and suggests the government’s ‘media-management’ is now out of control?
The film investigates the embed program and ‘infiltrates’ Fox News. It comes on the heels of the New York Times admitting that its pre-war coverage was deeply flawed and differed dramatically from reporting seen around the world. WMD provides shocking revelations into a US population, ill-served and under-informed by an unquestioning news media in crisis.