BBC 2's Conspiracy Files on 9/11. Hardly investigative journalism...

Last night, at 9pm, I sat down to watch BBC 2's Conspiracy Files on the 9/11 attacks, which I had hoped would bring major doubts concerning the attacks to the forefront of the mainstream media.

Since watching a film called "Loose Change 9/11", which detailed many of the unanswered questions concerning the September 11th attacks. If you are unaware of any of these unanswered questions, I urge you to watch the video (search it on youTube or Google Video etc.) and find out for yourself. Alternatively, if you live in Britain, you may wish to watch a similar film called "Mind The Gap", which details some of the unanswered questions concerning the 7/7 tube bombings.

If you don't have time to watch these films, let me briefly say that they discuss in detail problems with the official versions of these events. In both films, the outcome is that there are so many unsupported claims or official confusions that the evidence seems to point to false flag terrorism attacks. That is to say, our own governments perpetrated the attacks and used them as a pretext to invade Iraq and Afghanistan in the search for oil (wealth and security), as well as invoking the kind of atmosphere of fear in domestic territories in which the government can justifiably demand greater repressive powers.

At first glance, you may not agree with this and will probably think that I'm talking crackpot rubbish, but I urge you to watch these films (they express the whole idea much better than me).
Of course, it's important to take such things with a pinch of salt, and I have done...yet the films have cast doubt into my mind about these events and I wondered why it was only non-mainstream media (blogs etc.) which seemed to be reporting on the matter. Surely there ought to be a mainstream public debate?

Recently, having been reading a book on The Myth of the Liberal Media (see my earlier post), I discovered why the mainstream media were so reluctant to talk about the matter (i.e. they are completely controlled by corporate and government interests- to know more you can buy the book here).

When I saw the upcoming BBC2 Conspiracy Files documentary, I thought that perhaps the issue would finally be brought into the public eye. But no. I was disappointed to see that the ideas were portrayed as crackpot and ridiculous, and that individuals were labelled with the now derogatory term "Conspiracy Theorist". Even in the blurb on the article here, you can see that the program isn't receptive to the ideas. The language "Incredibly some believe that..." immediately suggests that because the ideas are incredible (literally 'unbelievable') they should not be taken seriously or given credit. The blurb claims that the show "tries to separate fact from fiction.", but in fact this is a complete lie: while the programme ridicules almost every theorist and theory, it allows the claim that a red bandanna and hijacker's passport were found at the crash site of the plane which came down near Shanksville.

Think about that for a moment (I know, it's a long post, but force yourself to use that brain now). A passport made of PAPER. And a bandanna made of FABRIC. Two perfectly destructible items. Which supposedly survived the crash of a plane whose body and all of its passengers COMPLETELY DISINTEGRATED. It doesn't add up to me. Yet the BBC documentary (which purports to be investigative) simply glossed over this as if it were fact.

Shame on the BBC for allowing this to happen. It toed the official line and ridiculed the more than plausible theories about what really happened that day. So, it looks like the mainstream press will continue to be as stubborn as they currently are. What a shame.