September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

“….in fact as (Dan) Rather explained it to me: the networks are really dependent upon press releases
from the State Department about going to press conferences, and they need that, what’s called target
footage - pictures from the smart bombs that go tick-tick-tick, boom! And all those cool pictures are
what keeps stations like CNN alive, and their advertising alive. So, what you have to do is, we have to
understand that we’re talking about a press corps which has stopped reporting, and what they’re doing
is just repeating; they take a press release, they rewrite it, they stand up in front of the camera and they
say… “This is Jo Schmo in front of the White House, and the president just said …” That’s not
reporting, that’s not getting the story.” [Greg Palast Interview, Bruce David, Hustler, On-line]
Another example of this fabrication and control is the 9-11 Truth Movement, which
masquerades as data collection point for “conspiracy” information. This organization is
actually funded by a business partner of Adnan Khashoggi. Any conclusions drawn on
the purpose of that arrangement are left to the reader.
“Khashoggi’s henchman Ramy El-Batrawi, currently under indictment with Big K for looting over
$120 million from a bankrupt company called GenesisIntermedia, the company that owns the
marketing rights to the creative output of Mars & Venus snake oil salesman John Gray. Gray is also
the man who funded the disinformation campaign calling itself the 9.11 Truth movement.” [FAA
Stonewalls Release of DC9 ‘Cocaine One’ Records: Homeland Security Inc Scandal Off And Running
, Daniel Hopsicker, Mad Cow Morning News, June 22 2006]
If the “press” no longer presents the fair and balanced reporting the American populace
assumes it to provide, an understanding of how that condition came to be is warranted.
The following section provides that understanding.
13.5 Media Control - the Facts
When people think of “controlling the media” they envision an Orwellian nightmare,
where a faceless bureaucracy has taken control of all the media. This section contends
that ‘media control’ is defined as the significant influence of five or six key individuals
who can intervene not only around key events, but can create an atmosphere of fear that
intimidates the reporters into compliance and biased reporting in the major media outlets.
Using this definition, the report will provide information which demonstrates that a few
key individuals in the US have that ability, have exerted their influence on news
organizations, and have controlled the news in favor of the Bush family. This, combined
with the physical intimidation of independent reporters by a group of murderous thugs
which supports the Bush family, suggests that “media control” is far more pervasive than
generally perceived. It is that influence that has prevented critical public analysis of the
events of 9/11 by the media, and prevented analyses such as this report from being
publicly discussed in the mainstream media.
First, it is important to understand that the US media is not an industry of multiple
independent news outlets from which the truth will spring. The public record clearly
demonstrates substantial consolidation of the media under five corporations.
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