MEDIA ROOTS — A pair of Internet archivists have uploaded Part Four of US corporate media print publications from the immediate days and weeks following 9/11. The duo plans to post more multiple full issues of Time and Newsweek as well as other timely magazines that are filled with propaganda. This issue of US News is from just three days after the attacks—September 14th, 2001.
Following 9/11, news media accelerated at an amazing rate, and most companies soon adopted Internet versions of their paper or magazines. Before this was commonplace, many interesting pieces of information printed about that day most likely were never reprinted again–due to either misinformation or abandonment by the propagandists. As we know, many government narratives and unfounded claims about 9/11 were re-printed without any journalistic investigation. Also worth noting is how candid some of the reporting is, where journalists admit to things like ‘patriotic bias’ clouding their ability to do actual journalism.
Part Four, War and We Must Win, gives us a look at a US News magazine published just days after the attacks. The issue includes an in depth explanation of how each tower collapsed. Since no steel framed building in has ever collapsed from fire or falling debris in history before, it’s peculiar that there was already such an astonishingly quick narrative set in stone. The final and most ominous page of the magazine has an article with the headline War, and We Must Win, by Michael Barone. It encourages the taking out of dictators in the Arab world including the likes of Iran, Iraq and Libya. It even features a picture of Saddam Hussein. We hope that these archivists continue this fascinating project, it could uncover aspects of the ‘War on Terror’ that most journalists and researchers have completely forgotten about. Above all, it reveals the extent of the conditioning the American people were subjected to immediately after the traumatization of this nation.
They have put the issue up in PDF Format, which can be downloaded here with an update to this article as well as a slideshow (see below).
Check out previous installments, Part One: The Terrorism Survival Guide, Part Two: How Scared Should You Be?, or Part Three: Afghanistan War Run Up.
Robbie Martin for Media Roots
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Note: The slideshow of the full US News issue looks best at full screen by clicking the box in the right corner. Click play to start. Click the pause button to stop the slideshow from progressing automatically on the right corner.
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