Media Coverage: The first to hit the grocery stand
September 29, 2001

by MC5

For days after the events of September 11th, this MIM 
writer went to the supermarket and found no news coverage 
of the attacks. "Muscle and Fitness" magazine and 
"Cosmopolitan" and the host of other magazines all 
competed to present the prettiest face or sexiest 
womyn's body. Even the most backward sections of 
Amerika were looking for more than the usual
entertainment, but the news coverage simply was not there.
Television, Internet and radio ruled.

Into this vacuum the first to appear was not Time 
or Newsweek magazine. Oddly enough, the first 
magazine to the grocery stand check-out line was a 
one-time special called "The Day that Changed 
America." It has a color photo of the World Trade 
Center explosion on the front.

The first words in this mostly pictures magazine 
were from Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York. 
It is not until page 57 that we start to 
understand the agenda of this magazine, because 
there was no table of contents, no publisher and 
no title listed at the front of the magazine. The 
reader had no idea who was putting out the 
magazine.

Page 57 features Osama bin Laden as "enemy #1." 
Page 58 has the Taliban with its weapons. Then on 
page 59 we see Saddam Hussein about to fire a 
rocketpropelled grenade. The magazine mentions: 
"He boasted that 7 million of his people have 
volunteered to help free Jerusalem from Israeli 
control." On page 60 we see a picture of a 
Palestinian boy firing a gun into the air, 
supposedly in celebration of the World Trade 
Center bombing. The text story next to the picture 
concludes: "You can't run white-gloved agencies. 
We are at war, the world is at war. But we will 
win."

Since the magazine did not even print any of the 
denials of responsibility by bin Laden or the PLO, 
at this point a reader should suspect that the 
whole agenda of the magazine is Zionist--
to incite Amerikans against Arabs in general. On page 
62 we see the controversial photo of Palestinian 
children celebrating the World Trade Center 
bombing. Some have said it was just a few 
children. Others have said it was an old photo 
from the war against Iraq. In any case, the 
caption spells out to the Amerikan people: "Long 
expressing hatred of the United States, 
Palestinians have accused this country of failing 
to halt Israeli attacks against them since 
Palestine began its 'intifada' or uprising one 
year ago." Again, no where in the publication does 
Yasser Arafat's condemnation of the bombing 
appear.

Unfortunately for Amerika, there may be another 
explanation for this magazine, even worse than 
being a Zionist set up. The company listed on page 
93 out of 98 as publishing the magazine is American Media 
Inc., specifically its subdivision of American Media 
Specials. By its own description "American Media, 
Inc. is one of the largest media companies in the 
U.S., with revenues in excess of half a billion 
dollars. The company publishes seven of the 15 
best selling weekly magazines, including the 
National Enquirer, Star, Globe, and Country 
Weekly. American Media, Inc. also owns 
Distribution Services, Inc., the country's leading 
in-store supermarket merchandising company. The 
corporate headquarters are in Boca Raton, Fla., 
with editorial and sales offices in New York, Los 
Angeles, Nashville, Detroit, Miami and 
Chicago."(1) With associations like the National 
Enquirer, no wonder the publishers hid their name 
until page 93.

Whether just the usual grocery stand stupidity or 
a combination of grocery stand stupidity with 
Zionist plot, Amerikans ought to know for 
themselves who the first to present the story at 
the check-out counter was. They also should 
know that the portrayed enemies of Amerika in that 
magazine have all denied responsibility for the 
bombing, and in some cases such as Yasser Arafat's, 
have donated blood for the U$A. At this time when 
the Amerikan media is doing copy-cat stories about 
how the "conspiracy theory" that the Israeli 
Mossad is responsible for the bombings is making 
the rounds(2), and when those stories universally 
denounce Pakistani and Middle Eastern people 
for believing them, we would like to point out 
that these media should focus on ignorance at 
home.

Note: 1. 
http://www.rrdonnelley.com/news/2000news/05-04-
2000.asp 
2. "Pakistanis buy into conspiracy 
theories," 
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-
092901rumors.story ; also
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,35301,00.html