Date: September 12, 2011
Subject: MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
What Passes for Journalism and Opinion in America - by Stephen Lendman
On the 10th 9/11 anniversary, a September 9 Washington Post editorial highlights what readers hungry for news and information face. Titled, "Ten years after Sept. 11: The gains outweigh the mistakes," it says:
"(C)onventional wisdom (suggests) "We will be hit again" to "Osama bin Laden won by provoking us into a decade of overreaction."
Fact check
Bin Laden had nothing to do with a US state-sponsored attack. Criminal militarists, in fact, planned permanent war on humanity "overreaction."
America "made big mistakes over the past decade...But the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon alerted Americans to genuine dangers that only a relative few had previously noticed."
Fact check
Americans only are endangered by rogue government elements, not "crazed Arabs" wanting to harm them.
"The overreaction argument holds that al Qaeda goaded the nation to curtail civil liberties and construct a monstrous homeland security apparatus while bungling into adventures abroad that birthed new enemies...."
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