Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Ethical Reflections on the 9/11 Controversy: The Responsibility of the Media to To Tell the Truth

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Ethical Reflections on the 9/11 Controversy: The Responsibility of the Media to To Tell the Truth

by Elizabeth Woodworth from Global Research.

The author slams the media's resistance to examine the evidence behind the widespread 9/11 skepticism and insists that...

librarians and media professionals have both the responsibility and the ethical support of their associations to seriously question 9/11, especially if that responsibility is the public wish – and the polls indicate that it is.

And further argues that...

It is urgent and essential that all professionals who convey information about 9/11 to the public be equipped with the best possible evidence, so that decision-making about our most pressing issues is based on sound knowledge.

It is clear to me that there has been widespread resistance by mainstream media to keep such questioning out of their coverage; and when they do cover it, they always frame these questioners as some kind of kooks. The message they want to instill in the minds of ordinary people is that one must never question established media authorities.

In my opinion these "authorities" are merely well paid mainstream media hacks that take their orders from the ruling class. Their job is to manage consent, and if they don't do their job well, they get sacked like Peter Arnett, Phil Donahue, Helen Thomas, and Octavia Nasr.