In advance of this week’s 9/11 anniversary, the NY Times finds that the Arab street still believes the US and Israel were involved. The Arab media has a hand in the rumors, but not how you’d expect:
The state-owned media are also distrusted. Therefore, they think that if the government is insisting that bin Laden was behind it, he must not have been.
Too bad the Arabs don’t have a truly free press. The seeds sown by tight media control were best expressed by Aristotle:
“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”
All the more so in a Web 2.0 world.
