WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception

2004 · 98 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 459 VOTES

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Overview

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...

Dialogue Timeline — 1,626 lines

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00:00:10 Sync:infotech www. divxplanet. com
00:03:28 ...one fought with soldiers
00:06:50 you have to consider the information...
00:10:31 Don’t put gore on television.
00:14:16 ...to threaten us with the world’s most destructive weapons.
00:18:25 So I think they did realize that, and for this reason they destroyed it.
00:23:11 activists tried to buy airtime for anti-war commercials like this:
00:27:03 Few of the journalists who covered the war...
00:30:41 Should they have used more? Should they use, a MOAB
00:34:27 I’m Gwendolen Cates and I’m here on assignment for People Magazine
00:38:23 I think so many journalists have this fascination-
00:42:28 coverage to maximize production values, to make it exciting.
00:46:45 That is the default from which everything else operates.
00:51:02 ...operation. He's the guy that engineered it...
00:55:06 Information dominance requires censorship -
00:59:07 THE FOX NEWS EFFECT
01:03:07 If I’m wrong, you didn’t go on Iraqi TV to say
01:07:20 ...with a small army of journalists tagging along.
01:11:04 ...and all of a sudden everyone gets in their truck and whips over there...
01:15:48 Al Jazeeera financed its coverage...
01:20:05 You don’t get people from the area really given proper hearing.
01:25:04 ...Phillip KNIGHTLY concluded "I believe that the occasional shots...
01:29:22 ABC News: unique, brave, provocative, unmatched.
01:33:17 you scratch my back, I scratch your back.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,626
Dialogue density16.6 lines / min
First line00:00:10
Final line01:33:17

Production Record

LanguageEnglish
Budget$200,000
IMDb votes459