Weapons of Mass Deception: the movie

events | :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 are co-sponsoring the screening at the NUJ on Thursday June 16.

The film, "Weapons of Mass Deception", will be introduced by Guardian columnist and London editor of Vanity Fair, Henry Porter.

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 the following evening at the Frontline Club and at the Glastonbury Festival Documentary Cinema tent. Glastonbury runs from 24 to 26 June.

DATELINE: 25 January, 2010

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