Media 911 Introduction

Media 911 is a collection of essays, mostly reviews, written between October 2001 and December 2005. By way of celebrating the fifth anniversary of one of the most successful mass-deception campaigns in history, this collection is posted as a free internet book at teslapress.com.

Media 911's focus is on the contortions of the established machinery of propaganda -- TV, print, radio, and internet suppression -- in the coordinated campaign to represent an inside job as a terrorist attack.

Some of these essays were published first on Portland Indymedia. They might never have been penned had this open medium not been available. The archived Indymedia articles are linked so that you can read the posted comments.

Media 911

1. NBC Spins 911
2. 911: Some WTC History You Might Not Know
3. 911: Griffin Reconsidered
4. How 911 Strains KBOO's Little Secret
5. 911: Selling AIDS and World War III
6. Web Surveillence by the Pentagon
7. 911: The Pod and the Petty

My original focus was NBC, and many wish that my attention had stayed right there in the mainstream. But I soon found an even more fascinating media study in the streams of dissidence (or of what's passing for dissidence these days), and I moved on to review the David Ray Griffin phenomenon and that of progressive left-denialism as manifested at KBOO.

academic
Thanks to phenomena like these, the 911-as-inside-job issue has devolved way out of the realm of possibility for any radical action into the realm of academe. This is what progressivism is good at. It's another way the system manages dissent. In place of action, we get endless investigation, analysis, and, within certain narrow limits, endless debate. If you are passionate about a cause, and a progressive comes toward you, run the other way!

The 911 Academy already has its annual convention established, and we can expect to see a 911 course appear on some liberal arts campus any semester now. It will be called, coyly, "The New Pearl Harbor, 101." The approved text will be Dr. Griffin's book.

So 911 joins the JFK assassination in history as another instance of a deniable coup supported by a media-propagated mythology beneath which persists an irrepressible underground dissident buzz. However, thanks to the progressive influence and the "911 truth" work of the likes of Dr. Griffin and Kyle Hence, the 911 buzz is more institutionalized and more academic and supports a more rigorous conformity, snobbery, and censorship than the JFK movement ever had.

routine
Although the 911 cover-up is seen by many as historically special, I contend that such deception is routine and that the apparatus for exercising massive public deception on a daily basis is firmly institutionalized in our way of rule.

Thus the earliest piece in this collection (written 10/4/01) is called "911: Selling AIDS and World War III." As 911 struck, I was just completing the third edition of my How the Chronicle Invented AIDS, and the 911 piece I appended to that work (which is posted at www.whatisaids.com).

The AIDS fraud is another instance of progressive-left complicity with the corporate mass media, as my How the Chron notes.

AIDS off my desk, I began a study of the 911 network TV video footage that took me to writing NBC Spins 911, published in print in April '02.

I ask for forgiveness for publishing these two essays so precipitously, as I herewith humbly submit my Media 911 book to the Academy for consideration as a listing on its Approved 911 Supplementary Reading List.

Do you think they'll take it?