JACKSON  (CONT)

As for the White House, it recently honored four U.S. reporters, three of whom died in Iraq, plus Daniel Pearl, who was executed by abductors in Pakistan. Meanwhile, the Bush gang ignored the five journalists killed by U.S. forces in Iraq. (Speaking of which, there's still no explanation from the Pentagon about the shelling of the Palestine Hotel.)

In the end, Deadline Iraq offers little news to the most addicted news junkies. At least not those in Canada. In the U.S., where the coverage was USA-all-the-way, it would be an eye-opener. But you can bet CNN viewers will never see anything like it.

Nor will they likely see Danny Schecter's WMD: Weapons Of Mass Deception, a film in progress. That's because, judging by the 20-minute preview he sent me, his film is a surgical strike on the mainstream media coverage of the conflict, much like his daily Web log (http://www.mediachannel.org). You can be sure no network would be interested in buying or airing it.

Hardly surprising really. Why would the networks 'fess up to hiding so much of the truth?

Which only helps prove that conspiracy theory of mine: Michael Jackson is a spook working for Dick Cheney.

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