"Smothered by a general public stupidity..."

The results of a German public TV poll after a documentary on 9/11 was aired:

In an "online vote," viewers were asked who they believed was in fact behind the attacks. Twenty-five percent thought it was George Bush; another 25 percent blamed the US government; 15 percent thought it was the gun lobby's doing; 27 percent voted for terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and 6 percent had no opinion. This means that two out of three viewers swallowed the conspiracy theory offering, even though it was partially debunked at the end. Little remained of the "charges against the authorities," except for the fact, now well known and documented by a congressional panel, that the US security system failed when put to the test, and that no one was willing to admit it afterwards.

Go to Davids Medienkritik for details.

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