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October 16, 2004
there is no boogeyman.
Dirty bombs aren't real, Wolfowitz is the disorganized brain-child of Leo Strauss, and al-Qaida doesn't exist. Sounds plausible to me.
Adam Curtis has a new documentary series coming out in the UK next week. It's called "The Power of Nightmares." Here he speaks about the 'manufacturing consent' media recursion terror thing:
"They are not the only ones who find opportunities. "Almost no one questions this myth about al-Qaida because so many people have got an interest in keeping it alive," says Curtis. He cites the suspiciously circular relationship between the security services and much of the media since September 2001: the way in which official briefings about terrorism, often unverified or unverifiable by journalists, have become dramatic press stories which - in a jittery media-driven democracy - have prompted further briefings and further stories. Few of these ominous announcements are retracted if they turn out to be baseless: "There is no fact-checking about al-Qaida."
It airs next week on the BBC2. (Who do I know in Great Britain with a TiVo?)
Posted by yatta at October 16, 2004 4:14 AM
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