Hollywood's Big Lie
Hollywood's Big Lie
By Daniel G. Jennings
One of the oldest, simplest and most effective techniques of propaganda is called "the big lie." It works like this: you merely repeat a lie over and over again in as many ways as possible in hopes that people will start believing it.

Hollywood is now using the big lie to get film goers around the world to swallow a horrendous myth as the truth. The myth is that the US government was somehow responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist atrocity. That Bin Laden was an ex CIA agent or trained by the government. That America was behind Sept. 11, so America's war on terror is unjustified, illegal and immoral.

The tinseltown liberals are putting the myth into all manner of movies. In the big budget comic book film "X-2" (sequel to the successful "X-Men" and number one movie in America in early May), the bad guys (shown as rogue elements of the US military, anti-government terrorists are the good guys) fake a terrorist attack on the President to get government approval for an illegal military action against an oppressed minority. This plot appears in what is supposed to be fun summer movie aimed largely at a young audience. In the critically acclaimed Fox TV series "24" evil elements of the government are responsible for a nuclear terrorist attack on the US.

These movie and TV plots try to convey the big lie to the public in fictionalized form. The lie being that the government itself and not Islamic extremists are behind the terrorist attacks against our great nation. That some shadowy cartel of CIA agents, generals, politicians and big business faked the terror attacks in order to justify its imperialist aggression against other countries and violation of civil liberties.

Worst of all, award winning documentary film maker Michael Moore is planning a documentary called Farenhiegt 911 which will show the "connection" between President George W. Bush and Bin Laden. Disney has agreed to finance and distribute this travesty. Moore has already won an Oscar for a film that blamed the Columbine High School massacre on the Pentagon. Now he wants to insult the memory of the Sept. 11 survivors in order to promote his sick politics.

Hollywood's spreading of the big lie won't change Americans' minds about Sept. 11 or the War on Terror. Nor will it change the ugly truth that we are in the middle of a war with a cadre of vicious fanatics who want to kill us and destroy our nation and our way of life.

Unfortunately, Hollywood's big lie will stoke the fires of anti-Americanism and increase hatred of the United States. These TV and movie myths will affect the sick minds of already deluded people and spark some of them to violence. Such propaganda won't change American minds but it will serve as an effective recruiting tool for Bin Laden and all the would be Bin Ladens out there. Americans and other innocents will die at the hands of fools who believe Hollywood's big lie. Some of their blood will be on the hands of the Hollywood liars and those who finance their propaganda.

It is time that Americans and our political leaders in Washington demand that the big corporations that own the Hollywood studios stop financing, distributing and producing movies and TV shows that promote anti-American propaganda as entertainment or worse as historical fact. It is also time we demand that big corporations stop advertising on such programs or conduct media campaigns in conjunction with such propaganda.

In particular we must demand that Hollywood stop telling the big lie and that those Hollywood types who can't stop telling it be kicked out of the entertainment industry. Yes this would be blacklisting but sometimes blacklisting is good. Especially when the blacklist targets those individuals who are hurting America, America's friends and America's reputation with their vicious propaganda.

First entry
Welcome to my blog. I'm a freelance writer and former journalist who will write and comment on a wide variety of subjects most of them in the news.

Since I'm a former journalist, I'll comment on the current scandal at the New York Times. Basically a young reporter at the nation's premier newspaper in the nation's number one city faked 36 stories and got away with it.

Naturally the conservative media is having a field day about this one. They're claiming that since the bad reporter happens to be black affirmative action must be to blame.

That's nonsense, a reporter of any color could have gotten away with that garbage at a big metro daily. The reason this happened had little to do with color and everything to do with the way reporters are hired today.

Until twenty or thirty years ago if you wanted to be a reporter at a big metro daily you needed to put in your dues. You went to work there sometimes in high school, and worked as a copy boy for three or four years. Then they let you write basic stories like the police beat. After ten or twelve years you'd get to be a real reporter. Or you started out at some small newspaper in a smaller city and worked your way up. What this meant was that the people who got to be reporters had a lot of experience.

Today you get to be a reporter at a big newspaper by going to the right journalism school and getting the right professor to write a letter of recommendation to the editor for you. That way you can get a six month internship leading to a reporter's job.

This means that most of the reporters at the nation's major newspapers have little or no experience beyond working there. The reporters have their jobs because they went to the right school. Is it any wonder these people buy any left wing propaganda?

To make matters worse these people work almost completely unsupervised. Decades ago they had dozens of editors and rewrite men at the major papers. There were dozens of experienced hardened old time journalists looking over young reporters shoulders and making sure they did their job.

Today, the editor is three or four years older than the reporter and less experienced than the reporter. Worse the paper is understaffed so the editors don't have the time to supervise the reporters or edit their stories if they want to. The budget cutting media executives got rid of all the copy editors.

The sad thing of course is this garbage at the NY Times is only the tip of the iceberg it's going on at the media.

The only good thing is we're hearing about the mess. Twenty years ago if this went on it would have been quietly covered up, the reporter would have been paid off and we wouldn't have heard of it. This reporter would have went on and worked at a dozen other papers and did the same thing. Today the Times came right out and admitted what had happened because they were scared that some web site would out them and embarass them.

The question we have to ask is: will the big media learn from this or not? I don't know. Hopefully they will.