[LAF] New documentary: Weapons of Mass Deception

[Adrian Williams]

I can't remember if this notice has gone out to LAF
people so here it is for certain, copied from a
journalist.
Adrian Williams
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A new hard-hitting documentary on Iraq by the veteran
US film maker Danny 
Schechter is to be shown in London. The NUJ and the
Campaign for Press and 
Broadcasting Freedom are co-sponsoring the screening
at the NUJ on Thursday June 16.

The film's perspective on Iraq is the media war fought
by the Pentagon with 
the willing co-operation of privately and
publicly-owned news networks and TV 
stations. The documentary shows how these bastions of
truth and public service 
broadcasting were only too happy to wrap themselves in
the US flag and 
suppress the truth when Uncle Sam went to war for oil.

In "Weapons of Mass Deception", Schechter presents the
plausible case that 
the media networks were keen to help out the
propaganda war in exchange for a 
slackening of FCC rules on media ownership and
conflicts of interest. The FCC is 
the equivalent of our own OFCOM, which recently took
on public service media 
regulation as well as more technical communications
rules. 

For a preview clip of the film, narrated by the
Hollywood actor Tim Robbins, 
visit
www.wmdthemovie.com
Tim Robbins' play 'Embedded', also dealing with the
media's questionable role 
in Iraq, won critical acclaim at London's Riverside
Studios last year.

Weapons of Mass Deception will be shown at the NUJ,
Headland House, 308-312 
Gray's Inn Road 
London WC1X 8DP (Nearest transport: King's Cross)
tel: 020 7278 7916
WHEN: 6.30pm Thursday 16 June

The film will also be shown at the Glastonbury
Festival Documentary Cinema 
tent.



	
	
		
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