He is asking for people to go see it, because, in addition to its inherent value to anyone who sees it, they also need lots of attendees so that it will be screened in more locations.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21157/Amy Goodman: WMD, Weapons of Mass Deception, a film opening this weekend in . Danny Schechter, the whole issue of embedded versus un-embedded journalists, actually, Jose Couso's family – his mother and brother Javier – are coming to the United States, calling for an investigation. Javier went back to Iraq or went to Iraq for the first time on the anniversary of Jose Couso's death and thanked the doctors who tried to save him and then went to lay flowers at Palestine Hotel. He told us last week on Democracy Now! that the U.S. military put a gun to his head and wouldn't let him lay those flowers.
Danny Schechter: What's also outrageous is that the American media companies did not demand an investigation of this, did not join Reuters in demanding an investigation. So it just wasn't just complicity and collusion in the coverage of the war but a refusal to get involved in an effort to try to find out what really happened, what the facts were. To try to get at the truth of what happened to their own people. That to me compounds the shock of the way in which the media played the role it did. I'm a former ABC News, CNN producer. I've been working at Global Vision all these years, I've been trying to cover under-covered and unreported stories. And I felt that the coverage of the war was one of the most under-covered stories and one of the most important stories. Because if we can't have a media we trust and depend on, how do we have a democracy or democracy now. That's why I felt this story is so important. We made this film at 1 percent of the cost of Fahrenheit 9/11, it's been a big struggle. The Cinema Libre company that distributed Outfoxed is distributing this film to theaters. We need support – we need people to come out and see this film this weekend in Washington D.C., and in Berkeley and San Francisco.
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