As the police work through the forensic examination, perhaps the major
media should conduct a forensic investigation of their own to figure out
how they got so much so wrong. Conspiracy theories are not usually spun
from the filaments of public imagination. In most cases they are based
off of actual, though often obscure, reports in the major media. For
as long as the mass media refuses to follow up on the discrepancies in
its own reporting as in the Aurora massacre and the Sikh temple
shooting, leaving the alternative press with no choice but to
investigate, there will be conspiracy theories. Some of those conspiracy
theories are undeniably conspiracy fact. “Sir, we have a report that police pinned
a second man on the ground just outside the school. What is his name?
What did you do with him? Where is he now.”
One of the great skills of an anchor is
the ability to present the news seamlessly. This is what those big
paychecks are for: the blends and segues and the underlying tone of
sincerity that bleeds into every detail of what is being reported.
“Sir, your newspaper ran a story about
a man’s body being found in Adam’s brother’s apartment. Then that
became Adam’s mother found dead in her own house here in Newtown. What
exactly happened there? A mistake? Wouldn’t you say that was a pretty
big mistake? How did it happen? What’s that? Typical confusion in the
early reporting of a crime? I don’t think so. Thinking a woman was a man
and thinking he or she was found in New Jersey instead of Connecticut,
that’s not typical at all. Did police find a man’s body. This is key.”
Your typical American television
viewer would cringe at such demanding questions. You know why? Because
he has been entrained and conditioned by news anchors to refrain from
digging below the surface. In other words, that viewer is hypnotized.
“Dr. Smith and Officer Jones, we
understand that this boy, who was autistic, extremely shy, who had some
sort of personality disorder, went into that school and methodically
carried out the slaughter of twenty-seven people. In order for him to do
that, he had to reload clips at least twice after the first clip ran
out. Does that make sense? We’re not just talking about a violent
outburst here, we’re talking about a methodical massacre. How do you
explain that?”
If these anchors kept on asking
questions like this, do you know what would happen? The viewing audience
would begin to stir, would begin to break through their hypnotic
programming and wake up.
“You know, he’s right. That doesn’t make sense. Maybe there really was a second shooter.”
“Or that Lanza kid…maybe he didn’t kill anybody at all.”
“What? You mean he was…set up?”
“Maybe he was a patsy.”
Yes. Instead of this kind of talk
being consigned to “conspiracy nuts,” it actually becomes part of the
evening news experience. Because reporters suddenly ask tough questions.
But no. We have to go with grief and shock. We have to lead with it and stay with it. (And allow Pat Battle NBC to use it as an emotional platform for a totally unrelated shooting at her sister's work place somewhere in an NJ School....shouldve been fired for the self absorbed, oblivious to everything on scene in Newtown reporting)
An artificial construct. The news producers are consciously moving minutes
and hours of scene through the tube and filtering out everything else.
They do this every time one of these
events occurs, and so the audience expects it and soaks it in and, in
that state of entrainment and hypnosis, the audience doesn’t want
anything else…because anything else would BREAK THE FLOW and the spell,
and the grief would no longer have the same impact.
Newtown is presented as a television
event. From the outset, the mood is funereal. It has that tinge and
coloration. The audience absorbs it and wants no intrusion on it.
This is Matrix programming.
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