Three things strike me about the flap over the ABC/Disney Path to 9-11 fake-u-drama featuring the radical reactionaries' fantasy of whom they prefer to blame for the tragedy five years ago rather than which administration is actually responsible.
First, as the media has consolidated into fewer and fewer megacorporations, any of which now has the power to "catapult the propaganda" by attempting to rewrite history under the thumb of the "victors," the 'net has, thankfully, gone the other way (at least so far) and sprouted millions of thoughtful writers including thousands of citizen journalists capable of joining with others in holding these same megacorps' feet to the fire of factual current events (I'm sorry, I can't bring myself to think of 9-11 as "history" yet, at least so long as the administration that allowed it to happen is still in power and still using it to scare the populace into giving them their way at every turn) and following the money. I consider that an exciting and very hopeful sign for our democracy.
Second, even if the portion of the radicals' wet-dream about the Clinton administration being too distracted by scandal to step up their anti-terrorism efforts were true (which it's not), considering the scandal in question had nothing to do with the effective governance of the country, and certainly didn't kill anyone - wouldn't that have been the fault of the same rabid reactionary crew and a complacent ratings-hungry media that decided to blow out of proportion, for months on end, a purely personal matter that would in actuality affected very few people?
And third, I can't wait to see what the Daily Show and Colbert Report make of all this upon their return from vacation. In the meantime, if you haven't seen The Editors' pictorial "exclusive preview" on this subject, I highly recommend it with the usual caveat (most of the people depicted in the photos are apparently radical reactionary bloggers and other pundits to whom I don't pay attention, so I don't recognize most of them).
Oh, and by the way, I know Bush will probably use his bully pulpit on Monday to catapult still more propaganda, but you know darn well that if he didn't address the nation on the fifth anniversary of one of his biggest failures the left-leaning section of the blogosphere would also be calling for his head, so it's kind of a damned-if-he-does, damned-if-he-doesn't thing, isn't it?
First, as the media has consolidated into fewer and fewer megacorporations, any of which now has the power to "catapult the propaganda" by attempting to rewrite history under the thumb of the "victors," the 'net has, thankfully, gone the other way (at least so far) and sprouted millions of thoughtful writers including thousands of citizen journalists capable of joining with others in holding these same megacorps' feet to the fire of factual current events (I'm sorry, I can't bring myself to think of 9-11 as "history" yet, at least so long as the administration that allowed it to happen is still in power and still using it to scare the populace into giving them their way at every turn) and following the money. I consider that an exciting and very hopeful sign for our democracy.
Second, even if the portion of the radicals' wet-dream about the Clinton administration being too distracted by scandal to step up their anti-terrorism efforts were true (which it's not), considering the scandal in question had nothing to do with the effective governance of the country, and certainly didn't kill anyone - wouldn't that have been the fault of the same rabid reactionary crew and a complacent ratings-hungry media that decided to blow out of proportion, for months on end, a purely personal matter that would in actuality affected very few people?
And third, I can't wait to see what the Daily Show and Colbert Report make of all this upon their return from vacation. In the meantime, if you haven't seen The Editors' pictorial "exclusive preview" on this subject, I highly recommend it with the usual caveat (most of the people depicted in the photos are apparently radical reactionary bloggers and other pundits to whom I don't pay attention, so I don't recognize most of them).
Oh, and by the way, I know Bush will probably use his bully pulpit on Monday to catapult still more propaganda, but you know darn well that if he didn't address the nation on the fifth anniversary of one of his biggest failures the left-leaning section of the blogosphere would also be calling for his head, so it's kind of a damned-if-he-does, damned-if-he-doesn't thing, isn't it?
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