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December 4, 2007 at 09:12:19

Why The MSM Won't Touch 9/11

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If the government's account of 9/11 is not accurate, wouldn't the media have been "all over it"?

Isn't the fact that most mainstream media sources don't spend much time covering these issues show that there's nothing there?

No.

Self-Censorship by Journalists

Initially, there has been self-censorship by journalists.

Several months after 9/11, famed news anchor Dan Rather told the BBC that American reporters were practicing "a form of self-censorship":

"there was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around peoples' necks if they dissented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions.... And again, I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism.
"What we are talking about here - whether one wants to recognise it or not, or call it by its proper name or not - is a form of self-censorship."

Indeed, journalists who have even asked innocuous questions about 9/11 have been threatened.

And, referring to another topic, a leading MSNBC news commentator has said that there is self-censorship in the American media, and that:

"You can rock the boat, but you can never say that the entire ocean is in trouble .... You cannot say: By the way, there's something wrong with our .... system".

As Air Force Colonel and key Pentagon official Karen Kwiatkowski has written (at page 26):

"I have been told by reporters that they will not report their own insights or contrary evaluations of the official 9/11 story, because to question the government story about 9/11 is to question the very foundations of our entire modern belief system regarding our government, our country, and our way of life. To be charged with questioning these foundations is far more serious than being labeled a disgruntled conspiracy nut or anti-government traitor, or even being sidelined or marginalized within an academic, government service, or literary career. To question the official 9/11 story is simply and fundamentally revolutionary. In this way, of course, questioning the official story is also simply and fundamentally American."

Censorship by Higher-Ups

If journalists do want to speak out about 9/11, they also are subject to tremendous pressure by their editors or producers to kill the story.

The Pulitzer prize-winning reporter who uncovered the Iraq prison torture scandal and the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam, Seymour Hersh, said:

"All of the institutions we thought would protect us -- particularly the press, but also the military, the bureaucracy, the Congress -- they have failed. The courts . . . the jury's not in yet on the courts. So all the things that we expect would normally carry us through didn't. The biggest failure, I would argue, is the press, because that's the most glaring....

Q: What can be done to fix the (media) situation?

[Long pause] You'd have to fire or execute ninety percent of the editors and executives. You'd actually have to start promoting people from the newsrooms to be editors who you didn't think you could control. And they're not going to do that."

In fact many journalists are warning that the true story is not being reported. See this announcement and this talk.

And a series of interviews with award-winning journalists also documents censorship of certain stories by media editors and owners (and see these samples).

There are many reasons for censorship by media higher-ups. One is money.

The media has a strong monetary interest to avoid controversial topics in general. It has always been true that advertisers discourage stories which challenge corporate power. Indeed, a 2003 survey reveals that 35% of reporters and news executives themselves admitted that journalists avoid newsworthy stories if “the story would be embarrassing or damaging to the financial interests of a news organization’s owners or parent company.”

False flag terrorism is the most controversial topic there is. Exposure of the truth about 9/11 would challenge the government and the corporate status quo. Exposure of the truth of 9/11 would directly damage the bottom line of the war profiteers (see below). It would also damage the financial interests of the news organizations, since revelation of the truth would show how bad the mainstream media has been in covering real news, thus encouraging more people to get their news from other sources.

In addition, the Bush administration is allowing tremendous consolidation in ownership of the airwaves. The large media players stand to gain billions of dollars in profits if the administration continues to allow monopoly ownership of the airwaves by a handful of players. The media giants know who butters their bread. So there is a spoken or tactit agreement: if the media cover the administration in a favorable light, the MSM will continue to be the receiver of the government's goodies. And censoring the truth about 9/11 is a large part of covering the administration in a favorable light.

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Former Lawyer, current Business Consultant,history buff, Christian, father of 2 sons and a supporter of democratic government.
ArchieFormer Lawyer, current Business Consultant,history buff, Christian, father of 2 sons and a supporter of democratic government.

MSM

The MSM are destroying their own business. They are losing subscribers daily. Why? Because the public is finally beginning to understand that the MSM is unreliable and untrustworthy as has been evidenced many times over these past several years. Every time the MSM refuses to run an article detailing the truth or runs an article twisting the truth and that article is disseminated through the internet, people become aware of the MSM's duplicity. If this keeps up there won't be any MSM and from my standpoint that may be a good thing.

by Archie (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1283 comments) on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 3:23:37 PM

Joel S. Hirschhorn is the author of Delusional Democracy - Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government (www.delusionaldemocracy.com). His current political writings have been greatly influenced by working as a senior staffer for the U.S. Congress and for the National Governors Association. He advocates a Second American Revolution, beginning with an Article V Convention to propose constitutional amendments. He is Chair of the Independent Party of Maryland.
Joel S. HirschhornJoel S. Hirschhorn is the author of Delusional Democracy - Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government (www.delusionaldemocracy.com). His current political writings have been greatly influenced by working as a senior staffer for the U.S. Congress and for the National Governors Association. He advocates a Second American Revolution, beginning with an Article V Convention to propose constitutional amendments. He is Chair of the Independent Party of Maryland.

All those seeking 9/11 truth

Come to the big conference and Tea Party in Boston:

by Joel S. Hirschhorn (133 articles, 37 quicklinks, 60 diaries, 533 comments) on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 3:55:13 PM

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Robert HoogenboomRobert Hoogenboom considers himself a philosopher in the traditional sense, interested in all the things of the mind, the body and the feeling. He is currently doing a Ph.D. in academic philosophy, started years ago, and makes his living as an IT consultant and technical writer. He is a ballroom dancer and runs a dance using computerised music. He speaks several languages. He raised his three daughters as a single father. These last few years he has become very interested in health and in econom...

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Interesting, how about the media in the rest of the world?

As far as I know, there is 9/11 censorship and self-censorship in Europe. And what is the situation in Russia, China, India, South America? And Australia? The media are silent about 9/11 here too. My wife confronted a respected commentator, a lawyer, at a book launch recently. The man works for non-Murdoch-owned media, and at one time was the presenter of a program that actually criticised the media. My wife said: "Mr. So-and-so, did you know that a third building came down on 9/11?" "No, I didn't." "And did you know that 9/11 was an inside job with controlled demolitions?" "Rubbish", the man said, and walked away. This is the behaviour of an otherwise very intelligent and simpatico man.

Kevin Rudd, Australia's new prime minister, announced Australia's ratification of the Kyoto Treaty, to great cheers from the attendants at the Bali conference. Now that that fool John Howard, who passed a mini-Patriot Act making a lot of things here acts of "sedition", has gone (in his final campaign he stood not only on his economic record, but on his "anti-terrorism "record as well), perhaps we will see more newspapers willing to start discussing 9/11. The majority of Europeans think Bush and co brought down those twin towers. And the media there don't discuss 9/11 and the US administration's complicity in it - surely one of the biggest crime stories ever - openly either.

Interesting, after writing the above I stumbled on this link, where an ex-Italian president openly says intelligence agencies all know 9/11 was an inside job:

Click here.

Robert Hoogenboom
Sydney, Australia

by Robert Hoogenboom (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 182 comments) on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 5:42:59 PM

Bill Cain is a professional travel photo-journalist who writes primarily for the Concord Monitor in Concord, New Hampshire. He's visited all seven continents, countless countries and his travel experiences have contributed to and are reflected in his world views.
Bill CainBill Cain is a professional travel photo-journalist who writes primarily for the Concord Monitor in Concord, New Hampshire. He's visited all seven continents, countless countries and his travel experiences have contributed to and are reflected in his world views.

MSM & 9-11

All the gassroots efforts in the world are not going to be enough for 9-11 Truth to emerge in the mass mind set, until someone figures out a way to crack the MSM. The Internet is still considered a conspiracy theorist's playground by most people, and by the time it sheds that characterization, it, too, will be totally controlled.

by Bill Cain (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 328 comments) on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 10:35:54 PM