WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception (2004)
The merger of newsbiz and showbiz. To them war is a product: they sold it and we bought it.
98 min
There were two wars in Iraq--a military assault and a media war. The former was well-covered; the latter was not. Until now... Independent filmmaker, Emmy-award winningTV journalist, author and media critic, Danny Schechter turns the cameras on the role of the media. His new film, WMD, is an outspoken assessment of how Pentagon propaganda and media complicity misled the American people...
- Release date
- December 12, 2004
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $200,000
Cast
- Peter Arnett as Self
- Maurice Hinchey as Self
- Nicholas Johnson as Self
- David Marr as Self
- Bill O'Reilly as Self
- Dan Rather as Self
- Tim Robbins as Narrator
Crew
- George W. Bush · Archive footage
- Dick Cheney · Archive footage
- Donald Rumsfeld · Archive footage
- Danny Schechter · Director
- Cristian Bettler · Producer
- Anna B. Pizarro · Producer
- David Chai · Editor