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war’s most fervid backers saw them.
SOUND BITES OVER TOKYO
EMBEDDED: WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION
AND so, at long last, months after the war was
prematurely deemed over, the media role was
being reconsidered. Many top editors and some
TV correspondents turned up. But there was
only one TV news executive present and, even
more disturbing, no U.S. TV outlets there.
This debate has still not been exposed to the
public at large.
I was covering the conference for a documentary
Globalvision is trying to make about the
issues raised in this book. As of now, we have no
funding and no certainty that we can finish the
film or get it in the air in the television environment
that manufactured the coverage I have
been dissecting. As those of you who have read
this whole shameful story know, as Susan L. Car-
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ruthers of the University of Wales put it in her
book length study, The Media At War (2000).
She writes: "Following the lead of the state,
mass media are frequently more willing accomplices
in war time propaganda than they care to
admit, and may even play a significant role in
instigating conflict."
Is there air time in our vast universe of so
many TV channel to tell this "Weapons of Mass
Deception" story,? And if there is, can we find
the funding to make the film and get it seen?
Stay tuned
I reported earlier that no TV teams came to
document the conference raising these issue of
the media and the Iraq War, I was wrong. There
was one. From the other side of the world.
Japan's NHK had a camera and producer present.
I know because at least they interviewed me.
If nothing else, I may get my fifteen seconds of
fame in Tokyo. ●