http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/487369#comme...
note the virulent anti-semitic spamming in the comments section promoting the most lunatic 9/11 "truth" nonsense, a great way to alienate nearly everyone
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meanwhile, the super-truthers don't usually mention that Democracy Now! started getting syndicated in newspapers by the Hearst Corporation a month after DN hosted a fake debate between "no planes" (Loose Change) and "no conspiracy" (Popular Mechanics). Hearst, of course, is also the parent company of Popular Mechanics, whose famous 9/11 debunking article included graphics from an early 9/11 truth website - questionsquestions.net - to debunk two of the most ridiculous 9/11 hoax claims. It's hard to prove the motivations of those who flog the false "no plane" nonsense - some are sincere (but wrong), some are doing it deliberately. However, it's beyond reasonable doubt that Popular Mechanics knew that some of the false claims were just propaganda and using the "truth" website debunking graphics proves it's just a bad joke.
It would also be interesting to hear Democracy Now staff explain why the one - and only - time they did a show on Peak Oil issues, they had to "balance" the interview of Julian Darley, founder of the Post Carbon Institute, with Michael Lynch, an industry hack who is a Peak Oil denier. A real "alternative" media could spent many shows profiling all of the shifts that communities will have to do to cope with the end of cheap oil, although it's understandable if that is a scary topic in Lower Manhattan, where Democracy Now has its offices. It's not a pleasant topic anywhere.
http://www.oilempire.us/democracy-now.html
http://www.oilempire.us/popular-mechanics.html
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