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The TV networks in America called their non-stop coverage their finest hour but critics like veteran journalist Danny Schechter, a former ABC and CNN producer, charge media complicity in promoting and cheerleading for a war in which some reporting was sanitized, staged and suppressed. Schechter, author of Media Wars: News at a Time of Terror, The More You Watch The Less You Know and News Dissector, fuses an insider's knowledge with an outsider's perspective, Throughout the war, he was "self-embedded" at Mediachannel.org, the world's largest on-line media issues network, writing a 3000 word daily news "dissection."

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