Weapons of Mass Deception Premiere at Crest Jan. 27

You'll find the Weapons of Mass Deception in Danny Schechter's fine  documentary of the same name about how the media helped lead the country into war.  At  the same time you'll be helping Soapbox continue to bring progressive news and views to the TV watching public in Sacramento and Davis.
Please come out for this great film. Come to the 5:30 showing if you can—we  want to fill the little theater TWICE so that Soapox can continue—and expand to other access stations in the Saramento area!

Sacramento premiere of Weapons of Mass Deception, documentary on media and
the Iraq War by Danny Schechter.
Thursday January 27, 
5:30pm and 8pm showings
Crest Theater 1013 K St
Tickets $10
Benefit for Soapbox, Access Sacramento’s progressive talk show—Mondays at
8pm, Wednesdays at 4am on Channel 17, in Davis Tuesdays at 7pm on Channel 15
For more info Jeanie Keltner 916 444 3203.

The release of "WMD" is well timed given the recent admission by the presidents of ABC, NBC and CBS news departments that their own coverage of therun-up to the Iraq War was flawed. "WMD" investigates and exposes the major U.S. media networks for allowing the government to influence their coverage. A former ABC and CNN producer and four time Emmy-Award winner, Schechter "embedded" himself in front of several televisions before and during the war to examine whether the networks kept the airwaves "fair and balanced."  The film reveals how the war Americans saw and read about is an entirely different war than the one the rest of the world viewed.

"It is more cohesive and devastating than Fahrenheit/911," says the Boston Phoenix, while Vanity Fair media writer Michael Wolff brands the film a "comic masterpiece," where Schechter "…out Michael Moore’s Michael Moore."

The Chicago Reader says "WMD" goes beyond Moore to offer a "comprehensive and devastating critique of the TV news networks complacency and complicity in  the war in Iraq ... brilliantly argued and well documented."

Schechter, "the news dissector," is a veteran journalist, filmmaker and media critic who edits Globalvision's Mediachannel.org, the world's largest on-line media issues network. His latest book, Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception (Prometheus Books), provided the foundation for the 98-minute "WMD," which is his 15th independent film.