A rumination on the credibility of the news media on what happened 24 years ago this week — and directly related events, with a few links. (9/11 TRUTH 9-7-25 is HERE, or scroll down. GAZA, LEBANON and UKRAINE entries for today are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up.) — MCM
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‘9/11’ and the media
A year and a couple of weeks ago Seymour Hersh began one of his weekly Substack reports this way:
“The last week of August is usually a slow one in my business. Whether at the New York Times or the New Yorker, as an investigative reporter I stayed the hell . . .”
On 52 weeks of every year for the last 24 years Hersh, perhaps the best-known U.S. “investigative” reporter alive, stays the hell away from questioning the veracity of the official government accounts of the mass murders of Sept. 11, 2001.
His business, the news business, depends on staying in business, keeping advertisers and readers and the government on your side — keeping the lights on, staying alive.
Hersh is mainstream, although as such he did write and in 2015 have published by the London Review of Books a report titled “The Killing of Osama bin Laden,” four years after the Navy Seals operation, questioning Obama administration lies about it.
Accomplished reporters who eschew any questioning of the official —and impossible — 9/11 accounts in their work include Chris Hedges, Glenn Greenwald, Joe Lauria, Robert Scheer, and Whitney Webb, all of whom portray themselves and are seen as outside of the “mainstream.” I think of them as of, or on, the left politically.
One well-known reporter and commentator who bills himself as politically conservative is Tucker Carlson.
Carlson may be one of only two journalists participating in this week’s three-day live-streamed pow-pow in Washington, D.C., “Turning the Tide: 9/11 Justice 2025,” previewed HERE. The other is longtime Montreal reporter Craig Smith, currently of his podcasts Truth and Shadows and Thought Crimes and Misdemeanors. To get a taste of his bent, see “Pursuing Truth in an Increasingly Fake World,” his January 2024 chat with his current colleague Andy Steele of AE911Truth.
Reporting is Hersh’s business. How he does it is his business. How the New York Times and the New Yorker or any newspaper or broadcast news operation do it is their business.
How their readers and viewers and listeners read and view and listen is another thing.
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