Truthdig

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"Drilling beneath the headlines"
Started: 2005
Founder: Zuade Kaufman

Owner: Truthdig L.L.C.

Truthdig is a website which is critical of the US government - up to a point. It does not, for example, welcome discussion of the events of 9/11.

September 11, 2001

In 2006 Blair Golson, a contributing editor of Truthdig, quoted a piece from Time magazine which was critical of "conspiracy theories" and 5 years after the 9/11 attacks wrote that {{#subobject: |Has superobject=Truthdig |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=Blair Golson|+sep=, |Has text=“I have studiously avoided blogging about “The U.S. government planned 9/11” conspiracy theories because, frankly, they strain credulity* (Editor’s note: I originally had written “…frankly, they’re crap; no government could keep a secret like that from leaking.” But as anything is theoretically possible, I decided to soften my statement); it seems unlikely to the extreme that the government could keep a secret like that from leaking.” |Is about=Truthdig,9-11/Truth, Big Lie|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=5 September 2006 |Sourced from=Truthdig |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName=Truthdig |Has sourceURL=https://www.truthdig.com/articles/why-the-911-conspiracy-theories-resonate/ }}“I have studiously avoided blogging about “The U.S. government planned 9/11” conspiracy theories because, frankly, they strain credulity* (Editor’s note: I originally had written “…frankly, they’re crap; no government could keep a secret like that from leaking.” But as anything is theoretically possible, I decided to soften my statement); it seems unlikely to the extreme that the government could keep a secret like that from leaking.” A propaganda technique called the "Big Lie" is worth reflecting upon in this context.

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