I name the four powers who are behind the al-Qaeda conspiracy

[Monkie]

A thoughprovoking 2 page opinion piece,a rare bit of common-sense analysis of the "powers" behind the al-qaeda mythology

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1065-1704834,00.html

"Matthew Parris
AT TIMES of national emergency, the habit of the news media to drop a story or a lead in mid-air when it seems to be going nowhere unsettles the public. The media betray a sort of sheepish wish to “move on” from an erroneous report, hoping that their audience will not notice. Rather than acknowledge this, they publish a new report, leaving us to compare it with what had previously been said — and draw our own conclusions. Or they start barking up a different tree, the inference being that the last tree may have been the wrong tree.

The habit is more disliked by listeners and readers than I think editors appreciate. Perhaps the first item on each day’s news agenda should be “matters arising from yesterday’s news”. News editors would then do us the courtesy of explaining where some of those stories went.
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My purpose is more limited. To alert you to the enormous, insidious and mostly unconscious pressure that exists to talk up, rather than talk down, the efficacy of al-Qaeda. When all the pressures are to talk up a lethal characterisation of the forces at work, we need to be supercool in the way we look at these reports.

You have read much about the threat of one particular conspiracy. Here is another. There is an unwitting conspiracy between four separate powers to represent the worldwide al-Qaeda network as fiendishly clever, powerfully effective and deeply involved in the London bombings.

[Poppyseedman]

1. Very good article on the powers that shape opinion

Unfortunately, because of the powers that are forming public opinion of who the actual perpetrators of the attacks were, all sort of strange conspiracies tend to spring up.

Rather than print what facts are actually known, they should print the truth, even if it's "we really don't know", of course that doesn't sell newspapers does it?

Examples in this country of conspiracies are plentiful after 9/11 or even before concerning the unknown secret world of terrorist mindset

LIHOP or MIHOP, A plane didn't hit the Pentagon, Iraq was behind Oklahoma city bombing and several more bizarre ones

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. This points out one of the modern dangers of society:

The press's reliance on the narrative or plot device in reporting the news.

They should simply report the damned stuff.