Fantasy Land
Who is living in a fantasy land-- those who accept the official explanation for 9/11 or those who seek explanations for the many holes in the official 9/11 story?
Obviously I feel people who believe the official 9/11 story are delusional, and nothing is more maddening than hearing newscasters STILL go on about Al Qaeda hijackers flying into buildings, and huge structures collapsing as a result, and the huge threat of Osama bin Laden. By now the official 9/11 story is pretty much hard-wired into most media people's brains, after three years of constant repetition, and I'm not sure really there is much we can do to change this. It has always boggled my mind that the major media gobbled up the official 9/11 story and have not bothered to question anything. I don't know about the American public at large-- but clearly a significant fraction of New Yorkers are open to other theories, as judged by the Zogby poll. But the media is clearly a problem. Are they just idiots? Or are they being heavily pressured by their superiors not to ask questions?
But after three and a half years of seeing the blatant lies put out by the Bush administration, I am a little shocked that the media hasn't gotten the sense that these people in charge of the government are thugs and cheats and thus wondered if maybe they ARE covering up something about 9/11.
The NYTimes on 9/11/04 wrote a little editorial about 9/11 "Public Knowledge". I got excited thinking they might talk about some of the problems with the official story. No such luck. It was about people's responses to the tragedy. The closest they got to asking hard questions was "why so many first responders died" and "what was in the terrorists' minds" and "how the attack affected the long-term health of New Yorkers" (I'll grant the last is an important question). I sent in a letter pointing out to them the Zogby 9/11 poll and the 9/11 truth movement. They have not run the letter or any similar letter since then.
Clearly there is still a lot of work for us to do.
Obviously I feel people who believe the official 9/11 story are delusional, and nothing is more maddening than hearing newscasters STILL go on about Al Qaeda hijackers flying into buildings, and huge structures collapsing as a result, and the huge threat of Osama bin Laden. By now the official 9/11 story is pretty much hard-wired into most media people's brains, after three years of constant repetition, and I'm not sure really there is much we can do to change this. It has always boggled my mind that the major media gobbled up the official 9/11 story and have not bothered to question anything. I don't know about the American public at large-- but clearly a significant fraction of New Yorkers are open to other theories, as judged by the Zogby poll. But the media is clearly a problem. Are they just idiots? Or are they being heavily pressured by their superiors not to ask questions?
But after three and a half years of seeing the blatant lies put out by the Bush administration, I am a little shocked that the media hasn't gotten the sense that these people in charge of the government are thugs and cheats and thus wondered if maybe they ARE covering up something about 9/11.
The NYTimes on 9/11/04 wrote a little editorial about 9/11 "Public Knowledge". I got excited thinking they might talk about some of the problems with the official story. No such luck. It was about people's responses to the tragedy. The closest they got to asking hard questions was "why so many first responders died" and "what was in the terrorists' minds" and "how the attack affected the long-term health of New Yorkers" (I'll grant the last is an important question). I sent in a letter pointing out to them the Zogby 9/11 poll and the 9/11 truth movement. They have not run the letter or any similar letter since then.
Clearly there is still a lot of work for us to do.
posted by spooked at 7:07 AM
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