Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception: How the Media Failed to Cover the War on Iraq

News hound Schechter (Media Wars; The More You Watch the Less You Know; etc.) opines on WMDs (""Weapons of Mass Deception"") in this impassioned indictment of the news media's coverage of the recent war in Iraq. Among his beefs are the civilian casualties that were""rarely shown in the western media,"" the way the coverage""sold the war even as it claimed to be just reporting it,"" and the media's poor--and in some cases absent--portrayal of the war protests, which he says were""the largest global protests in history."" Calling the President""Daddy Bush"" and using other colloquial terms, Schechter presents his thoughts in a diary-like form, dating his thoughts as the war progresses and interjecting questions (for himself and for readers) throughout. For skeptics and those unhappy with the way Americans learned of what was happening in Iraq, this is an energetic but deeply discouraging study.