Back in the sixties the antivalor agitators prattled about "the Establishment" which they were opposing but they were able to do it on broadcast TV because the actual "Establishment" - journalism - was on their side.The 911 Commission is a miserable failure for the simple reason that pointing out that it is journalism which is the institution which could have put us on the alert before 911 far more effectively than it did. By alerting the public to the fact that there was more at stake in the hijacking of an airliner than the lives of the passengers and crew, journalism, in fact, prevented the success of the kamikazee pilot who had seized the controls of Flight 93.
That's ironic because as leftists, journalists believe in the magic incantation of big government, whereas when journalism's alert got transmitted via cell phone to the passengers of Flight 93 the people took action to prevent the success of the intended kamikazee attack. Knowing that their own lives were forfeit, either way. Government had nothing to do with it; the people learned that the short straw was in their hand, and they acted on their own initiative.
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