Any suggestions, YT, on how to make some sort of national report on the day's events? Is there a place for this on truthaction.org?

the media was not as consolidated as it is now. Nowadays the media, ALL OF IT, is owned by a handful (4 or 5) of companies, all of which are owned by globalist elite new world order types. Aside from NAFTA, we have Clinton to thank for starting the media deregulation ball rolling.

The left-right paradigm is false, they are all bought and paid for by the same people, and they are all playing for the same team.

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Physics/Science/Mathematics do not lie, only people do.
9/11 was an INSIDE JOB

To paraphrase Orwell in 1984, 'Who controls [information about] the present controls the past, who controls the past controls the future.'

Of all the gross misconceptions that stand in the way of having more people open their eyes to the truth of 9/11, perhaps none is such an obstacle than the one about the news media having some kind of independent watchdog status (you know, the maddening, 'but if there were anything to these theories, the media would have reported it' line)--and the near automatic invocation of Nixon and Watergate as proof. But if Nixon hadn't roused the ire of the FBI and CIA, causing them to fear for their own status the more he concentrated power in the White House, then all the editors and publishers and reporters who were so chummy with the folks at such agencies would have been much less likely to pursue the Watergate story. The course of that scandal was more like a falling out and a reordering within the power structure, with the news media then as now very much a part of that power structure.

To the extent that the '70s was a more interesting time for journalism, even that was really restricted to just a few years--you can think of it as a Tale of Two Daniels, from Daniel Ellsberg's successful leaking of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 to Daniel Schorr's being threatened with incarcertion for leaking parts of the Pike Committee report in 1976. Others in this thread have pointed out the role of corporate consolidation in affecting news coverage since the '90s, but journalism in this country had already taken a serious turn for the worse well before that. If you haven't seen it, I would strongly urge you, Hergoa, and anyone else reading this to check out the article at the following link, written by a former Associated Press reporter:

http://consortiumnews.com/2005/101905.html

Have you never heard of the story of Gary Webb, who bravely documented the long-suppressed story of collusion between cocaine smugglers and elements within the Reagan and first Bush administrations, and was instantly made the target of an elite-media pile on? The New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, CBS, etc.--all had assured their readers and viewers years before that there was nothing to such rumors, and they didn't like being exposed for frauds by an upstart at the San Jose Mercury News (greatly assisted by the internet--it wouldn't be the last time major news outlets would feel threatened by that medium). So they unleashed a barrage of smears against Webb until his editors caved and backed off the story, and Webb was ruined professionally. He wound up shooting himself (though some suspect he was bumped off) in December 2004.

Are you aware that the nonsensical magic bullet theory of the JFK assassination, now widely rejected in public opinion polls, continues to be embraced as unshakeable orthodoxy within the major US news media? As with 9/11, deviation from this creed is simply not permitted.

In short--the major news outlets have long been an indispensable part of the power structure; as such, what are supposed to be the ordinary rules of capitalism don't necessarily apply. There are considerations that come into play which distinguish them from more run-of-the-mill profit-seeking ventures. What these news corporations have in common with politicians and bureaucrats and the military-industrial complex, etc., is that the last thing they want is a genuinely empowered, engaged, aroused, involved citizenry. If the people start acting, in great numbers, as if they actually live in a democracy, then the capacity of corporations to bulldoze ahead with their agenda is significantly hindered. So while in the short run revealing the truth might sell papers and boost circulation and ratings and advertising revenue, these news corporations know that their ability to reap profits over the long term is more safely assured in having a public of stupefied couch potatoes content to leave politics in the hands of a wealthy, powerful few. Hence, they are not favorably inclined toward letting the public in on the truth of 9/11.

Will corporate media ever get on board with 9/11 Truth, beyond the ultra-limited hangout of 'incompetence'? My most typical answer is 'No way.' But sometimes lately I have wondered whether--If we keep up the pressure and continue to grow in number--they will ultimately resign themselves to the fact that the official story just won't sell anymore; and recognize that much as they loathe the democratizing effects of the internet, those effects are real and can't be ignored; and might reason something like, 'we may not be in the driver's seat like we used to be, but if we maneuver and postion ourselves now with respect to the truth of 9/11, we can at least keep our places near the front of the bus.'

But such a transformation is still very hard to envision, because these news organizations have done so much themselves to build up the official story and the whole psychology that surrounds it. To let up on ridiculing and attacking skeptics of the official story; more than that, to even become more open to such skeptics--these would be tantamount to disowning their own baby.

Then again, if governments are capable of murdering their own citizens....

Doesn't that feel good? I'm itchin' to get out there today! I hooked up our new banner at the last minute and it's pretty rockin'. Your post was the first thing I read this morning and that's what I call good news. I'm glad your first day out went well and I look forward to hearing future developments from the brand new Australian 9/11 truth movement! Nice work on the coffee!

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