American Debunking, or Does Anybody Have a Copy of 'The Onion' I Could Borrow?

na-na EVAN THOMAS your bias is showing...

Apparently 9/11 didn't change everything after all.

Evan Thomas, the celebrated Newsweek editor / pundit who has built an impressive literary career on thorough research and analysis has managed to squander his legitimacy in the blogosphere by editorializing not only the reportedly absent politics in oliver stone's WORLD TRADE CENTER, but also by crafting such a nationalistic flag-toting fluff piece as his 'How American Myths Are Made' in the latest issue of Newsweek.

My understanding of the film solely from various reviews i have read, along with a bootleg copy of the screenplay I managed to obtain -- though admittedly having not yet seen the film first-hand -- is that Stone does subtly introduce questionable occurrences from the official story into the narrative of the film, which for such a mainstream movie released by a major Hollywood studio under the very same administration that was in office during the event is an impressive victory in and of itself.

However, the problem with Thomas' condescending tone throughout his piece - while barely mentioning alternative points of view for no more than one graf, and even then with ridicule - speaks to the sad state of affairs mainstream American journalism finds itself in. While I certainly wouldn't expect Newsweek to be a mouthpiece for the 9/11 truth movement, I was clearly mistaken to believe they would still endeavor to uphold some semblance of investigatory virtue, or at the very least devote more than a few lines to an ever-growing movement largely comprised of the very working-class people Thomas was so quick to sanctify. It is this sort of pedantic theology that colors much of our mainstream media today, and ironically, has aided in creating the very kinds of mythology Thomas so vehemently defends in his piece.

Whatever side of the political aisle one resides, it has become painfully apparent that there are several problems with the official story of 9/11, and if Thomas were truly concerned with preserving the American tradition of pursuing truth and victory in the face of adversity, he would be supporting the questioning of the events of our 'day of infamy', if only in the name of disposing of useless mythology.

His editorial, unfortunately for his readers, was a missed opportunity. Shame on Newsweek.