It was just a distraction from the war in the middle-east...you saw how the media played it out as much as they could, made you forget about the crisis in the middle-east. i'll bet if you look back at when it all started(the karr thing) you can find sum insane new law or sum new bushspeak......as a reminder the corporatenewswhores went into war-time mode as soon as the first plane hit the twin towers.....

I find these quotes very interesting in these day n time

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media."
William Colby (Former CIA Director)



"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands."
Spiro Agnew, U. S. Vice-President, 13 November 1969

"The owners and managers of the press determine which person, which facts, which version of the facts, and which ideas shall reach the public."
Commission On Freedom Of The Press

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."
Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)