When News Lies: Media Complicity and the Iraq War [With DVD]

Description

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.

Product Details

Price

$27.95 $25.99

Publisher

Select Books (NY)

Publish Date

November 01, 2005

Pages

278

Dimensions

7.52 X 9.18 X 0.9 inches | 1.26 pounds

Language

English

Type

Hardcover

EAN/UPC

9781590790731

BISAC Categories:

Media Studies

Journalism

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About the Author

DANNY SCHECHTER (1942-2015) was a veteran journalist and an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster who reported on and produced programming about human rights issues--including Chinese affairs--for years. A former CNN and ABC news producer, he executive produced China Now for PBS. His writing on current events and media issues appeared in the Boston Globe, Newsday, Village Voice, the Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, and many other publications. He visited China in 1997 to speak at an international symposium sponsored by Beijing TV. He is the author of News Dissector: Passions, Pieces, and Polemics, 1960-2000 (Akashic Books), Falun Gong's Challenge to China (Akashic Books), and The More You Watch, The Less You Know (Seven Stories Press). He was the executive producer of Globalvision and executive editor of Media Channel, a global media watchdog website.

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