Critics of the coverage consider much of the U.S. media complicit in the promoting and cheerleading for a war in which some of the reporting was sanitized, staged and suppressed. Now that coverage, including articles and essays published elsewhere, appears with a new introduction and hard-hitting analysis as Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception, a book length study of the new merger between the military and the media. The book includes reports written in late May, 2003 (the online edition published by ColdType.net was updated through October 2003).

"This is the best book to date about how the media covered the second Gulf War or maybe miscovered the second war…I recommend it."
-Peter Arnett, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Schechter, author of Media Wars: News at a Time of Terror, The More You Watch The Less You Know and News Dissector, brings an insider's knowledge based on 30 years in journalism with an outsiders perspective to critiquing media coverage. Throughout the war in Iraq, as he describes, he was "self-embedded" at Mediachannel.org, the world's largest on-line media issues network, writing a 3000 word daily "dissection" of the global coverage based on a wide range of source.

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