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Media Censorship

Michael Meacher MP comments on the Internet and the mainstream media

Transcript of an interview with Simon Aronowitz, editor of Thoughtcrimenews.com 29th June 2004. Listen to the full interview here

Michael Meacher is Labour M.P. for Oldham West and Royton. He was the U.K. Environment Minister from May 1997 to October 2003 and has had thirty year career in politics. He wrote an article for the Guardian Newspaper in September 2003 criticizing the official story on the events of September 11th.  


"One of the things I have learnt in the last year is that there is a new reality out there, at which material is exchanged, which for reasons which one can only conjecture, do not get into the conventional media. They do not get into the world's newspapers, nor into radio and television by and large,  but they are raising real, serious , thoughtful questions.  But there is a suppression of these questions, let alone a suppression of some of the evidence, because of course, the newspaper industry is dominated by a very small number of individuals, as we know in this country, in Britain, by Rupert Murdoch and his five newspapers, and Associated Press, the Daily Telegraph ... but it's a very small coterie of highly politically motivated individuals.  And what gets into the newspapers is very limited. It's not to say that I think the proprietors ring up every day and say 'don't print that, don't print that'. Of course that isn't what happens. But there is a culture of what can conventionally be fed into the media which is read or listened to by the general public which is very far from the open, free, transparent press that we are led to believe is the whole reality. It isn't. There is a great deal of questions which need to be raised which aren't. That again does not mean to say that there are not some extremely good journalists who are radical , progressive, who do probe, who sometimes even put their lives at risk to get more data. Of course,  all of that is true. It's a complex picture, but there's a great deal, particularly about an issue like 9/11 which has never, I think, been seriously discussed. It needs to be discussed and also the question of why a lot of these questions raised on the internet are not raised in the conventional media.�