ABC News Disappointed To Find No Ranting Violent Wackos At 9/11 Truth Convention

By Darryl Mason

The ABC News story turns out be more balanced than many were expecting, though it seems primarily focused on trying to find Truthers who spout violent, ant-government rhetoric, so as to forge a neat link with the Pentagon shooter.

If that was ABC News' mission, they failed.

The message that Truthers are not violent, and represent a wide cross-section of the American public (some of whom are also running growingly popular mini-industries) is instead clearly presented and stated by many interviewed, and in the end Truthers are dismissed as Mostly Harmless, like JFK assassination obsessives.



But ABC News will be doing stories on 9/11 Truth again.

They will see a noticeable increase in traffic to their website and a surge of comments from running the above story. ABC News will learn, if they don't already know, that 9/11 Truth stories are pure clickbait. 100,000 extra visitors, half a million, linked up on hundreds of blogs and independent news sites.

No mainstream media can afford to dismiss pure clickbait as a story not worth focusing on.

And perhaps ABC News knows that if a new investigation into the 9/11 attacks does go ahead - a public investigation with weeks of testimony from Bush administration officials and firefighters and family members and architects and engineers and terrorism experts - then this event will produce hours of popular news content. That is, inexpensive TV, with a pre-attached audience in the millions, plus hundreds of easy stories to fill their website for months to come.

There's some kind of bizarre idea that Americans don't want to hear about 9/11 anymore, or that it is still too soon to revisit those events and criticise those who failed to protect the United States from terror attacks.

This is simply not true. The reason why cottage industries are flourishing around the 9/11 Truth movement is because Americans have not heard enough about 9/11, and have an appetite to learn more, to find out if there really are great secrets still hidden from them on what happened that day.

The mainstream media, by sheer audience demand alone, will come round to the idea that a series of televised public hearings into the 9/11 attacks, how the WTC towers collapsed and the failure of Bush administration officials and intelligence agencies to prevent the attacks, is a very good idea indeed.

It will certainly bring a few million Americans back to their TVs.


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