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WHAT THE CRITICS SAID
This is the best book to date about how the media covered the second Gulf War or maybe
miscovered the second war. Mr. Schecchter on a day to day basis analysed media coverage. He
found the most arresting, interesting , controversial, stupid reports and has got them all in this
book for an excellent assessment of the media performance of this war. He is very negative
about the media coverage and you read this book and you see why he is so negative about it. I
recommend it." – Peter Arnett
“In this compelling inquiry, Danny Schechter vividly captures two wars: the one observed by
embedded journalists and some who chose not to follow that path, and the “carefully planned,
tightly controlled and 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 and insight in this careful and comprehensive study, which teaches lessons we ignore at our
peril.” – Noam Chomsky.
“Once again, Danny Schechter, has the goods on the Powers The Be. This time, he’s caught
America’s press puppies in delecto, “embed” with the Pentagon. Schechter tells the tawdry tale of
the affair between officialdom and 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 gunhole of a moving Abrams tank? Schechter explains this later,
lubricious twist, in the creation of the frightening new Military-Entertainment Complex.”
– Greg Palast, BBC reporter and author, “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.”
"I'm your biggest fan in Iraq. Your book is amazing. Amazing. I started reading it last night and I
haven't been able to stop reading. I spent the night sitting up in front of the computer, reading
page after page. I only stopped when the electricity went off and then I tried sleeping- but sleep
wouldn't come because I kept thinking of some of the things you had written – especially about
the embedded journalists. ... I hope it sells 3 million copies and that it becomes required reading
everywhere. Not for your sake, for our sake and the sake of all the ignorant people out there. I
don't know how many fans you have- or how many you will eventually have but I mean every
single word. I lived through that incredible lie." – "Rivervend", an Iraqi woman blogger who
writes "Baghdad Blogging"