PRESS RELEASE
January 26, 2006 Contact David Rippe
For Immediate Release 513-253-4854
For Immediate Release 513-253-4854
david@celestiacorp.com
FORMER ABC/CNN PRODUCER TAKES MEDIA TO TASK OVER IRAQ WAR
Noted Journalist and Filmmaker Danny Schechter Accuses Media Corporations of "Collusion" with Bush Administration
New York, NY - Award-winning filmmaker and journalist, Danny Schechter and his publishers at SelectBooks in Manhattan, have released an explosive expose on news reportage of the Iraq conflict. Titled When News Lies: Media Complicity and the Iraq War, Schechter's book goes beyond the conventional discussion of right-wing media versus more left-leaning outlets, to expose what the author refers to as the media marketing of the war to the population.
Schechter's voice is not the only one trying to draw attention to this disturbing trend. In When News Lies, Schechter is joined by Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff, who penned the book's foreword and was himself part of the media team covering the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Also contributing to the book are independent journalist Dahr Jamail and Colonel Sam Gardiner (USAF, retired), an information warfare specialist.
SelectBooks, Inc. is releasing When News Lies in a special Digital Media Edition, which includes a DVD of Schechter's feature-length documentary Weapons of Mass Deception, an account of television coverage of the initial U.S. invasion. The idea, according to publisher Kenzi Sugihara, is to offer the public a full corpus of information on the topic in an effort to pick up the challenge that national news media seem to have ignored.
WMD was just honored with the jury Prize at India's Breakthrough Human Rights Festival and has been accepted to a leading film festival in Argentina. It has aired worldwide and was screened on the Independent Film Channel in the US.
Schechter's voice is not the only one trying to draw attention to this disturbing trend. In When News Lies, Schechter is joined by Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff, who penned the book's foreword and was himself part of the media team covering the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Also contributing to the book are independent journalist Dahr Jamail and Colonel Sam Gardiner (USAF, retired), an information warfare specialist.
SelectBooks, Inc. is releasing When News Lies in a special Digital Media Edition, which includes a DVD of Schechter's feature-length documentary Weapons of Mass Deception, an account of television coverage of the initial U.S. invasion. The idea, according to publisher Kenzi Sugihara, is to offer the public a full corpus of information on the topic in an effort to pick up the challenge that national news media seem to have ignored.
WMD was just honored with the jury Prize at India's Breakthrough Human Rights Festival and has been accepted to a leading film festival in Argentina. It has aired worldwide and was screened on the Independent Film Channel in the US.
For more on the film: Http;//www.wmdthefilm.com
About Danny Schechter
About Danny Schechter
Danny Schechter is a television producer and independent filmmaker who writes and speaks about media issues. He is also the author of "The Death of the Media (Melville House, 2006); "Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception: How the Media Failed to Cover the Iraq War" (Prometheus Books, October 2003); "Media Wars: News At A Time of Terror (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); "The More You Watch, The Less You Know" (Seven Stories Press) and "News Dissector: Passions, Pieces and Polemics" (Akashic) Books and Electron Press). He is the executive editor of MediaChannel.org, the world's largest online media issues network, and recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists' 2001 Award for Excellence in Documentary Journalism.
Schechter joined the start-up staff at CNN as a producer based in Atlanta. He then moved to ABC as a producer for 20/20. Schechter has reported from 49 countries and lectured at many schools and universities. He was an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Schechter's writing has appeared in leading newspapers and magazines including The Nation, Newsday, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, Media Studies Journal, and many others.
For questions, more information or to schedule and interview, please contact David Rippe at 513-253-4854, or via email at david@celestiacorp.com
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