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Schechter's insightful, wide-ranging critique of the American media's war coverage targets the way in which a virtual merger between the Pentagon and the media produced a war spectacle that the American public was primed to see, media collusion in the campaign to discredit the UN, ""rightwing liberation theology"" as war propaganda, the cosy relationship between news anchors and retired officers hired as military analysts, the controversies over Peter Arnett and Geraldo Rivera, the looting of Baghdad, the lack of media focus on civilian casualties, the disparities in coverage between U.S. and foreign media, and more.

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""In this compelling inquiry, Danny Schechter vividly captures two wars: the one observed by embedded journalists & some who chose not to follow that path, & the 'carefully planned, tightly controlled & brilliantly executed media war that was fought alongside it,' a war that was scarcely covered or explained, he rightly reminds us. That crucial failure is addressed with great skill & insight in this careful & comprehensive study, which teaches lessons we ignore at our peril."" - Noam Chomsky ""Once again, Danny Schechter has the goods on the Powers That Be. This time, he's caught America's press puppies in delicto, 'embed' with the Pentagon. Schechter tells the tawdry tale of the affair between officialdom & the news boys-who, instead of covering the war, covered it up. How was it that in the reporting on the 'liberation' of the people of Iraq, we saw the liberatees only from the gun hole of

In this compelling inquiry, Danny Schechter vividly captures two wars: the one observed by embedded journalists & some who chose not to follow that path, & the 'carefully planned, tightly controlled & brilliantly executed media war that was fought alongside it,' a war that was scarcely covered or explained, he rightly reminds us. That crucial failure is addressed with great skill & insight in this careful & comprehensive study, which teaches lessons we ignore at our peril. - Noam Chomsky Once again, Danny Schechter has the goods on the Powers That Be. This time, he's caught America's press puppies in delicto, 'embed' with the Pentagon. Schechter tells the tawdry tale of the affair between officialdom & the news boys-who, instead of covering the war, covered it up. How was it that in the reporting on the 'liberation' of the people of Iraq, we saw the liberatees only from the gun hole of

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Danny Schechter is executive editor of Mediachannel.org; cofounder and executive producer of Globalvision, a New York-based television and film production company; a recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists' 2001 Award for Excellence in Documentary Journalism; a former producer for CNN and for ABC News 20/20, where he won two National News Emmys; and the author of many books on the media.

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