Why is the American Media so afraid to tell the truth about 9-11?

[Q]

- Watching The Learning Channel's special on the official version of 9-11. Like most of the rest of the American media...they've become revisionists... disregarding the most relevant facts about what Bush* was doing and how his administration responded on that day.

- The format of this show consists of interviews and 'flashbacks' from Bush's* staff and remains completely loyal to the official version of events. They don't show Bush* sitting there for over 20 minutes as the hijacking unfolds unimpeded by US defenses. They fail to discuss why no planes were scrambled to intercept the hijacked planes. Not one voice to challenge the official story or present an opposing point of view.

- TLC is not alone. Most if not all of the 'mainstream media' is telling the same story - the 'official' version of events. Which is why the Bushies are now considered 'heroes' to so many Americans.

- Call me a 'conspiracy theorist' if you must...but I sincerely believe the US Media is a 'coconspirator' with the Bush* government in hiding the truth about 9-11. I can't say exactly why they're doing it...but the end result is that they're protecting the Bush* government from liability, responsibility and accountability.

- What's your take on this issue?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. One word:

Anthrax.

[janekat]

2. I think they're a bunch of scared rabbits...

They're afraid that they'll get heat if they tell the truth. Most media outlets are also owned by Rupert Murdoch and other Right Wingers.

[janekat]

4. Watch MSNBC - they've been slamming the Administartion

They've been having 9/11 widows on.

[fizzana]

3. If they told the truth no-one would ever trust anything the

government ever did again.

[Minstrel Boy]

5. A history lesson on the media's servitude to power:

when Dan Rather viewed the Zapruder film shortly after the assassination, he told the world it showed Kennedy's head being rocked violently forward.

[theboss]

12. Cronkite, I believe

I think it was the mid-60s before the film was released to the public.

[Minstrel Boy]

14. It was definitely Rather

It was his first big break with CBS.

[meow2u3]

6. They'd get whacked

and the killers would make it look like an accident, suicide, or illness; in other words, they'd get Wellstoned.

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

7. CBS's Dan Rather told BBC that reporters are too afraid

this is from late Feb or first week in March 2003

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CBS's Dan Rather tells BBC reporter Palast that US reporters are too afraid to ask questions

On my BBC television show, Newsnight, an American journalist confessed that, since the 9/11 attacks, U.S. reporters are simply too afraid to ask the uncomfortable questions that could kill careers: "It's an obscene comparison, but there was a time in South Africa when people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented. In some ways, the fear is that you will be neck-laced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck," Dan Rather said.

Without his makeup, Rather looked drawn, old and defeated in confessing that he too had given in. "It's that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions and to continue to bore in on the tough questions so often."

Investigators were ordered to "back off" from any inquiries into Saudi Arabian financing of terror networks....

The reports I did based on this information won the California State University School of Journalism's Project Censored Award in 2002. It's not the kind of prize you want to win -- it's given to crucial stories that were effectively banned from U.S. airwaves and papers.3 I don't want any misunderstanding here, so I must emphasize what we did not find: We uncovered no information, none whatsoever, that George W. Bush had any advance knowledge of the plan to attack the World Trade Center on 9/11, nor, heaven forbid, any involvement in the attack.

FBI Document 199I

What we did discover was serious enough. To begin with, from less-than-happy FBI agents we obtained an interesting document, some 30 pages long, marked "SECRET." I've reproduced a couple of pages here (figure 2.1). Note the designation "199I" -- that's FBI-speak for "national security matter." According to insiders, FBI agents had wanted to check into two members of the bin Laden family, Abdullah and Omar, but were told to stay away by superiors -- until September 13, 2001. By then, Abdullah and Omar were long gone from the United States.

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http://www.gregpalast.com

[DulceDecorum]

8. We need to clone Helen Thomas

"I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter," said Thomas, who is now a columnist for Hearst News Service. "Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'" Her short list of answers seems not to vary from war, President Bush, timid office-holders, a muffled press and cowed citizens, pretty much in that order.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2002/nov06/thomas.html

MS. THOMAS: My follow-up is, why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis?
http://www.antiwar.com/comment/helen.html

[Flying_Pig]

9. Because, as Paul Krugman said today...

in his Buzzflash interview, the majority of the media are nothing more than government propagandists. They are not allowing the "real story" to get out, nor be discussed. In essence, they are all, the media, the Bush regime, and anyone else (including some Democrats) who were either directly involved in 9/11 (LIHOP or MIHOP), and/or, has kept the truth from the American people, guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, fraud, treason, and crimes against humanity.

This is what we face.... the execution and cover-up of a crime of unbelievable historical and personal implication. Hundreds of millions around the world, either believe they know the truth, or suspect it, and simply cannot beleive that the American people are standing by, letting it happen....in doing so, we are all witting, and unwitting, accomplices.

[billbuckhead]

10. They won't say anything. They are the unindicted co-conspirators

Corporate media was in on the 911conspiracy from day one just like they were all in on the sElection scam. They give this naked administration it's cover with smoke and mirrors. Today's American corporate media oligopoly can obscure almost all of the sunlight anytime the regime nods.

[Festivito]

11. They won't be promoted and might be fired.

FOX got rid of all liberals.

In our social economic status driven society, who wants to lose their identity, i.e. their job.

They'd have to pick their fights. For now, they seem to be choosing not to fight at all.

[lindashaw]

15. On MSNBC, an interesting thing just happened...

Not about 9/11, but about their up-coming coverage of the election. They have their own MSNBC commercial, and at the end of it, they said, "Al Gore got the most votes, and he lost." Haven't heard that in awhile from the media.

[Snellius]

13. Good article on unanswered questions about 9/11

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/6742902.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

See also: http://www.unansweredquestions.org/