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Post by W.O.M.I on Apr 16, 2007 13:17:34 GMT -5
Great opinion piece on the issue: www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000140.htmlOf particular note is the section dealing with 9/11, though the author also brings a bit of common sense to the Moon Landing Deniers, the JFK Conspiracy crowd and "Chemtrails" (which was a new one on me).
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Post by solomon on Apr 20, 2007 19:10:15 GMT -5
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Post by W.O.M.I on Apr 21, 2007 18:14:24 GMT -5
I'd like to recommend a really good read:
"Disinformation", by Richard Minter.
In his book, Mr. Minter lists around 20 myths propagated- and, in many cases, actually invented- by the MSM and sets out to rebut them one by one.
Among the myths he dissects and disproves are:
That Al Qeida and Saddam's Iraq had no connections prior to 9/11.
That Jews were given advance warning of the attacks and told not to report to work in the Towers that day.
That OBL was incapable of ordering the attacks because either he was physically incapable of doing so or because AQ lacked the capability to pull off such an attack.
That terrorism is linked to poverty and desperation.
That we found no WMDs after the 2003 invasion and that Saddam was incapable of producing WMDs.
The book is VERY extensively footnoted and the author takes great pains to interview both proponents and opponents of the Iraq effort.
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Post by solomon on Apr 21, 2007 23:33:27 GMT -5
WOMI I'll try to get a copy. I'm living pay check to paycheck like most Americans though. Plus I just bought 600 blank DVDs (you can only imagine whay kind of stuff I'll be burning copies of).
Books I have recently bought are the 9/11 commission report, 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in the USA by Webster Tarpley, Paul Thompson's Terror Time line, Crossing the Rubicon by Michael Ruppert and The Grand Chessboard by neocon Zbigniew Brzezinski. Good Lord willing I'll get that book later.
WOMI have you watched Alex's 9/11 Road to Tyranny? He quoted from the Final Jihad which had a McVeigh character blowing up a government building prior to the Oklahoma City bombing. It was written by a Keating fellow who's brother was a governor or something.
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Post by W.O.M.I on Apr 22, 2007 13:06:16 GMT -5
sol-
Been there with ya. It do sucketh.
You should be able to find a copy at the library.
What I appreciated about the book was that Minter's underlying politics were, at least to me anyway, undefineable. That is the biggest compliment I can pay to a journalist. Too often- and from both ideological sides- what we see, hear and read are little more than editorials being passed off as objective news. That's certainly not the way it used to be.
Think back to Walter Cronkite. There was a reason that he was almost universally trusted- he reported pretty much straight down the middle of the road. When he opined that we had 'lost Vietnam', his words held extra weight because of his reputation as an honest and impartial reporter of the news.
In today's context, is anyone ever surprised that Chris Matthews has something bad to say about the Bush Administration? That Brian Williams and Katie Couric report consistently that global warming is real and caused exclusively by mankind? We know their underlying ideology because, well, it's not so underlying- it's right there on their sleeves; they're Liberals, they report the news from a Liberal perspective and they try to advance their preferred Liberal agenda.
BTW- notice that I exclude pundits like O'Reilly, Hannity, Olbermann, Cooper and the rest from my criticism. My reasoning is that I do not consider any of them to be journalists and/or news reporters. Their shows are basically broadcast editorials and I have no problem at all with someone who is primarily an opinion writer- which is what editorials are- from interjecting their ideology into any given discussion, regardless of whether or not I agree with their viewpoints.
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