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Media 911 Introduction (see below) 2. 911: Some WTC History You Might Not Know 4. How 911 Strains KBOO's Little Secret 5. 911: Selling AIDS and World War III 6. Web Surveillence by the Pentagon
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911 by George Trinkaus Media 911 is a collection of essays, mostly reviews, written between October 2001 and December 2005, published as a collection here first in 2005, by way of celebrating the fourth anniversary of one of the most successful mass-deception campaigns in media history. Media 911's focus is on the contortions of the established machinery of propaganda -- TV, print, radio, and the Internet -- in the coordinated campaign to represent an inside job as a terrorist attack. The official 911 story fooled almost everybody, so why was I nonbeliever from day one? 1. Like almost everybody, I had seen TV footage of controlled demolitions: office towers, stadiums collapsing straight down into their own footprints, which is exactly what the twin towers did. 2. When the twin towers burned, I recalled the blaze in the upper floors of the First-Interstate Tower in L.A., which had smoked on for days, so I expected the same physics to prevail, however, to my surprise, both towers collapsed in less than an hour. 3. I had seen a TV documentary by a demolition expert, a retired Navy admiral, who explained that the fertilizer bomb in Oklahoma City had a specific impulse way too low to fracture that front row of steel columns -- required were preinstalled high explosives directly attached. So 911 offended my science. Also, as a practitioner of media, who has spent too many years in New York and Hollywood, I had lost all faith in the sincerity of any story from any network. 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 comments, which are posted at the end of the Indy articles. My original focus was the NBC network (NBC Spins 911), and some 911ers may 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 (Griffin Reconsidered) and that of progressive left-denialism as manifested at the Pacifica FM here in Portland, Oregon (How 911 Strains KBOO's little Secret). academic This is what rad-lib-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. That is, if the issue is acknowledged at all. Established progressive rad-lib media, like The Nation, instead of busting the mythology, repetitively promotes "the terrorist attack of 911." This is a tacit contract that needs to be examined. In polite political discourse on media, Spin is acknowledged, but the Pro-active Big-Lie Propaganda cannot be mentioned. 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 (The Pod and the Petty). routine 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 section called "Selling AIDS and World War III" I appended to that work (the entire article is linked below). The AIDS fraud is another instance of progressive-left complicity with the corporate mass media, as my How the Chron notes. Writing on the AIDS campaign was part of my education for writing on the 911 campaign. AIDS off my desk, I began a study of some NBC video footage that had come my way, and this took me to writing NBC Spins 911, published in print in April '02. I ask forgiveness for publishing these essays so early and 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
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