Global Research - by Prof. James F. Tracy:
"This essay originally appeared on September 21, 2001 in my Daily Iowan column, 'Firing Line'. The piece uses George Orwell’s 1984 as a basis to suggest how from the very beginning the corporate media played a central role in setting the stage for the prevalent Osama bin Laden-Al Qaeda myth, the related 'blowback' thesis vigorously embraced by the progressive-left community, and the assemblage of rearguard actions defending such perspectives and reflexively labeling all accounts conflicting with government pronouncements as 'conspiracy theories'.”
