Media Diversions
How is it the same corporate owned media that has is such a dismal record
of recruiting, hiring and retaining people of color in their, newsrooms, studios
and editorial boards is having a field day with Trent Lott? Not only is it
hypocritical it is deceitful because usually when they go whole hog over stories
that contain sex, political scandal or race these stories serve as diversions
for some other issue or issues the ruling elites don’t want the masses to know
about or question. Sure Bush doesn’t need the type of statements Lott made at
Strom Thurman’s birthday party while he is aggressively drumming up his war
where a disproportionate number of people of color will be on the front lines
fighting for his imperialist global agenda for god (gold oil and drugs). It
creates a problem because black and brown people will be loath to risk their
lives for white men who wistfully yearn for the days of AmeriKKKan
segregation/apartheid. But all the brouhaha about Lott’s statement and
speculation about him being a racist ( how could he not be given white supremacy
is the cultural bedrock of AmeriKKKa and considering his personal background)
took the focus off of Henry Kissinger’s resignation as head of the upcoming
9-11 Investigation Commission and the recently released Congressional Joint
Inquiry Into 9-11. This is a common
tactic used by the mass media when they want to keep something from Bubba and
Louise or they want to minimize public awareness and debate about a particular
issue. Kissinger’s resignation, the how and why he resigned are crucial for
our understanding of how the game is really played, also for understanding the
implications surrounding 9-11 and the Congressional investigation while the
question of Trent Lott being a racist is old hat.
We need to understand how the news media works. Editors, that is
assignment editors, lay out editors and news program editors decide which story
is will lead or which stories will be given prominence on any given day or
newscast. They determine the amount of space or time an issue or story is given.
What Tent Lott said, really wasn’t news he had stated this in public on
numerous occasions, he even said so. So why play it up? In fact the media
didn’t even mention it until several days after he said it. It’s not as if the mainstream media has our best interests
at heart or they care about our feelings; because if they did the tone, tenor
and content of their papers, or news programs would be a whole lot different!
You can only tell one story at a time on television news and in a newspaper only
so much material can go on a page. So if you fill the page with old news, new
material can’t get on. The Trent Lott firestorm blotted out discussion of
Henry Kissinger’s resignation just a few weeks after Bush appointed him
to head the 9-11 Investigation Commission.
Why did he resign? According to Kissinger too much emphasis was being
placed on his client list disclosure, meaning he would have to reveal who his
consulting firm works for, which individuals, government’s, or multi-national
corporations he is receiving money from. Since Kissinger does business on a
global scale and has entre and access to many capitals and key players, there
was the potential for a conflict of interest if one or more of his clients were
directly or indirectly implicated in 9-11. For example Kissinger may have
clients in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan, we already know that Saudis, Egyptians and
Pakistanis were directly involved in 9-11. What if there were connections to
Kissinger’s clients? Before you
go bonkers and label me a conspiracy kook go to your browser and type in CIA
Operation Mockingbird, read some of the material listed therein, realize it
started in the late 1940's and is still going on on an industry wide scale, then
connect the dots with what I am saying.
Why the diversion, by the
media? Because if these issues were out in the open and as they say
“transparent” it would raise more questions about 9-11, the investigation
and the seriousness of the Bush administration’s attempts to cover up what
really happened. Many people were skeptical once Kissinger was appointed because
of his reputation as a war criminal and because the Bush administration has been
avoiding getting to the bottom of what happened on 9-11. Both Bush and Cheney
both lobbied aggressively against open and public joint hearings. But they the
last thing they want is for their plans or their dirty deeds made public. This
not the first time something like this happened. Granted there is only so much
space or air time available but editors do prioritize one story over others. For
example back in the Spring and Summer of 2001 the main story that dominated the
news in the US was Congressional Intern Chandra Levy’s disappearance and the
questions about Congressman Gary Condit’s involvement in that. The story
contained sex and politics, all the elements of a low grade mystery, voyeurism
and soap opera drama. However while Dick and Jane were being force fed Chandra
Levy, Europe was reporting on India and Pakistani officials revealing the US was
preparing to take military action against the Taliban sometime in mid October
2001! Was that story ever played in AmeriKKKa? The answer is no, the question is
why not? If it is true and it is,
it means Bush and Co planned to move on Afghanistan way before 9-11! Add that to the fact we now know Bush and Co were briefed
about specific terrorist plans during the week of September 9th and
the concept of using airplanes as weapons was not new, the FBI and CIA were
aware of Operation Bojinka and its global implications ( which is what the Joint
Inquiry Into 9-11 final report says) and
we have even more valid questions about what was really going on in the Bush
administration prior to, during and after 9-11. Kissinger’s resignation adds
fuel to the fire, because if Bush truly wanted an independent and honest
investigation, he should have at least anticipated this and dealt with it so
there were no appearances of conflict of interest or that the investigative
panel was not going to aggressively go where the facts led them. The released
Joint Inquiry Into 9-11 says all of this and more. That’s why the elites used
the race card with Lott to divert the public’s attention from that and the
Kissinger fiasco.
There are other instances of this diversionary media tactic such as the
1991 long drawn out confirmation hearing for Uncle Clarence Thomas which took up
all the news space while almost nothing was reported on the CIA Director
confirmation hearings that were going on around the same time. Getting back to
last week; with all the hoopla and attention focused on Trent Lott, there was
even less space to report or dissect the just released findings of the
Congressional Joint Inquiry Into 9-11 which took the US intelligence community
to the proverbial woodshed for a spanking.
Like stage magicians or street hustlers running their pick a card or find
the pea con game; the media distracted us while they shuffled the news to keep
potentially damaging stories out of sight and our consciousness. The problem for
them is the Internet. Because so many people can download foreign newspapers or
alternative news sources (like www.WhatReallyHappened.com
, www.copvcia.org, www.UnansweredQuestions.org
and www.PRWatch.org ) the mainstream media’s hold on the public mind is not as
great as it was a generation ago or even five years ago. With the
Rockefeller/Bush Big Brother agenda primed and ready to go into full effect, we
need to think for ourselves, seek reliable alterative sources of information and
dig for the truth behind the headlines. Your very life may depend upon it.
Junious
Ricardo Stanton produce and host a Internet
radio program titled The Digital
Underground which airs live on Sundays from 12 pm- 2 pm eastern standard time on www.NewBlackCity.com
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