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CONTENTS BOOKS BY DANNY SCHECHTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 DEDICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 PROLOGUE TO A POST LOG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 INTRODUCTION BLOGGING THE WAR AWAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 CHAPTER ONE: WINNERS AND LOSERS TRAINING THE MEDIA FOR WAR: A PENTAGON PRESS REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 REPORTS ON THE POST-WAR WAR: ASSESSING THE AFTERMATH AS A WAY OF SEEING HOW WELL THE MEDIA PREPARED US FOR THE OUTCOME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 CHAPTER TWO: PRODUCING THE WAR HOW A MEDIA-MILITARY MERGER PRODUCED THE WAR AND PREPARED US TO WANT TO SEE IT . 51 WORDS FROM THE WISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 CHAPTER THREE: COUNTDOWN TO WAR DISCREDITING THE U.N.; DENIGRATING THE INSPECTORS; PREACHING TO THE COUNTRY. . . . . . 77 CHAPTER FOUR: MOBILIZING OPINION PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES; RIGHTWING LIBERATION THEOLOGY; MEDIA DEBATES; PREPARING THE COVERAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 15 BUNGLED STORIES (EDITOR AND PUBLISHER) . . 107 CHAPTER FIVE: BATTLEFIELD BLUES THE QUAGMIRE DEBATE; TV GENERALS DISSENT; TALKING ENDLESSLY ABOUT “THE PLAN;” EMBEDS ON PARADE; CENTCOM NEWS NETWORK . . . . . . . 111 WAR AS ONE BIG JOKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 CHAPTER SIX: SURROUNDING BAGHDAD INVASION ENCOUNTERS RESISTANCE; THE FALL AND RISE OF PETER ARNETT; THE DEBEDDING 7 OF GERALDO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 WORDS OF THE WISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 CHAPTER SEVEN: WAR KILLS JOURNALISTS JOURNALISTS BECOME THE STORY; WAR PRIORITIES SHIFT; NOAM CHOMSKY’S VIEW; RIP; KELLY AND BLOOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 ANOTHER WAR OF WORDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 CHAPTER EIGHT: SO THIS IS VICTORY? THE LOOTING OF BAGHDAD; WAS THIS EVEN A WAR? WERE JOURNALISTS MURDERED? WAS BBC BIASED? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 THE STATUE SPECTACLE: WE WANTED IT TO BE TRUE BUT IT WASN’T, BY TED RALL . . . . . . . . . . . 228 CHAPTER NINE: REMEMBERING THE FALLEN CALL FOR MEDIA CRIMES TRIBUNAL; COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS REPORT; ROSTER OF THE DEAD AND THE MISSING . . . . . . . 233 FACTS FROM FAIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 CHAPTER 10: WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT? A CALL FOR MEDIA ACTIVISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 AFTERMATH: THE SUMMER OF SUMMING UP . . . . 243 MANHUNTS AND MEDIA MYOPIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 LETTER TO ED MURROW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 THE NETWORKS AND NEWS MANAGEMENT. . . . . . 262 CHAPTER 11: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES THE IRAQ WAR ON TV: A SPLIT REALITY (FROM MEDIA TENOR IN BONN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 LAST WORDS: DECEPTION AS POLICY . . . . . . . . . . 279 CREDITS ABOUT THE AUTHOR: DANNY SCHECHTER . . . . . . 283 ABOUT COLDTYPE.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
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This is an issue that protest movem
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Unofficial leaker in trouble EMBEDD
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EMBEDDED: WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION
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including Gulf War veterans and two
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the jihad and its mirror image. “
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will do what he wants to do.” He
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CHAPTER THREE COUNTDOWN TO WAR 75
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described it as a dual ultimatum. Y
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miserably at diplomacy that we’re
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“crew of the cantankerous” on t
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CHAPTER FOUR MOBILIZING OPINION 89
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cities south of the capital, Iraqis
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- threatening Iraq and threatening
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are on plan,” the plan is working
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CHAPTER FIVE BATTLEFIELD BLUES 109
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Ibn Haithan institute . . .” The
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Protesting media coverage EMBEDDED:
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some kind of ignorance acknowledgme
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middle of the video showroom, like
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destruction. “Fox News and the Je
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the news-consulting firm found that
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Kuwait are practicing stenography r
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looming war as an attempt by Americ
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une knew there were serious questio
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media and in the media can be ignor
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Gulf War I for merely reporting fro
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CHAPTER SIX SURROUNDING BAGHDAD 143
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ing taxicab than the US did with so
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children being killed like this, bu
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media mainstream. Yesterday I parri
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Mugger mugs TV coverage, too EVEN T
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military purposes. The broadcast of
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to give big political contributions
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CHAPTER SEVEN WAR KILLS JOURNALISTS
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day the United States is engaged in
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What Europe reads EMBEDDED: WEAPONS
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esistance. Our media calls them sui
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US war toll rises to 75 EMBEDDED: W
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to report, the news nets were still
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the UN that the Iraqi armed forces,
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APRIL 9: AMNESIA STALKS THE AIRWAVE
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CHAPTER EIGHT SO, THIS IS VICTORY?
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State, George Schultz. He’s not o
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there may also be substantial harm
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the Arab world has begun in earnest
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A call for a strong man EMBEDDED: W
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She said that most of the folks in
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The moral universe of Thomas Friedm
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CHAPTER NINE REMEMBERING THE FALLEN
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CHAPTER 10 WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?
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war’s most fervid backers saw the
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CHAPTER ELEVEN INTERNATIONAL PERSPE
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CHAPTER 12 OCTOBER POSTSCRIPT
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servative fuddy-duddy George Will w
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engage. Ricks offered a mild dissen
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with the regime as if it were safe
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offered to me by Abdallah Schleiffe
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DECEPTION AS POLICY As investigativ
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DANNY SCHECHTER Dissector/Writer/Di
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