Covert Operations and the Media

To be somewhat fair to the media-- or at least to honest reporters that work for the media-- one reason they cannot deal with events like 9/11 is that they cannot deal effectively with covert operations, especially if they imply criminal behaviour by the US government. And 9/11 was a covert operation, no doubt about it.

The reason reporters cannot investigate covert operations effectively is because these operations are set-up to be inherently contradictory and difficult to nail-down. The people involved in covert operations are seedy characters who simply can't be trusted. Reporters, even if they are honest, HATE this sort of thing because it is a tremendous amount of work and effort to figure anything solid out.

And then-- even if a smart and energetic reporter can sort out the extreme complexities and contradictions built into any covert operation, there is a very good chance that an editor will reject the story because it is not sourced or verified well enough for the major implications it might have for criminal behaviour by the government.

I have no doubt that this is one major reason there haven't any investigations into government complicity in 9/11 that resulted in published or broadcasted reports.

The biggest reason of course is institutional corruption of the media-- either by CIA infiltration or by major corporate interests. And as Mike Ruppert points out, there is a major overlap between corporate America and the CIA.