When News Lies: Media Complicity and The Iraq War Book

Contents Acknowledgments....................ix
Foreword by Michael Wolff....................xi
Prologue....................xvii
Preface by Dahr Jamail....................xxv
Preface II by Sam Gardiner....................xxix
Opening Salvo....................1
Chapter 1 Challenging the Mainstream: From Blogs to Books to Docs....................9
Countdown to War....................22
Enter WMD....................24
Chapter 2 Media on Trial: Are Media Mistakes Accidental or Criminal?....................29
The Tribunal-Testimony of Danny Schechter to the World Tribunal on Iraq....................42
Assessing Media Wrongs....................42
There Was a Media War....................44
Post-Vietnam Media Management....................46
Chapter 3 Media Cover-ups and Complicity: Crossing the Line....................53
Ministry of Newsspeak....................60
Critics and Cover-ups....................65
The Strategy Comes Home....................67
Chapter 4 The Media Is the Issue: Challenging the War Is Not Enough....................79
Transforming the Media....................97
Memo to the President....................102
Draft-Confidential State of the Media 2005 Address for GWB....................104
Chapter 5 The Making of the Film WMD: The Inside Story....................109
Production Hell....................111
Finishing the Film....................116
Epilogue....................121
Biography....................131
Script of the Film WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception....................137
Glossary....................241
Who's Who inWMD....................243
Comments/Reviews of Film....................249