The US media seems to be made up of both regular reporting, and stories that generate one-hit wonders simply because the story dries up when police find no more clues or the officials say 'case closed.' For example, the Anthrax murders and 9/11. Anthrax murders, the trail 'dried up' when investigators were lead to Fort Dietrich, MD. With 9/11, the case was closed as soon as the planes hit the building: Officials say it was done by Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaida, despite the fact that the buildings obviously suffered controlled explosions, and that 7 of the 19 listed hijackers are alive and well!
Interesting example of a planted story is the California Ricin Scare.
US public being prepped for Ricin Attack
Similar is Attempts to buy vehicles raise suspicions
Timing of the Nick Berg murder story, which looked a lot like it was done right in Abu Graib prison, helped cover interest in the Abu Graib abuses, which were a direct result of the current administration's decisions, and an insight into what happens at secret American camps like Gitmo's Camp X-Ray. Images like these simply don't help America's war aims:
But hey, if people get too fixated on how evil this is, we can always flash this a lot:
Yep, no official sanction of these actions, just the work of one evil little PFC Reservist from Maryland. See, the US never figured that pictures like this would help shame Iraqis into becoming informants or consider the use of females as interrogators on the psyche of the Arab male. She was taking pictures because she was proud of being evil.
Besides, females always make easy scapegoats. And, if any reporters like that pesky Richard Perle get too close to finding the funding for 9/11, we can just use those evil Arabs to cut their heads off, even if the perpetrators are members of the Pakistani ISI. Oops, kind of puts a damper on the investigative spirit of other journalists, eh?
[edit on 26-10-2004 by taibunsuu]
