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Censorship & 9/11

The uproar caused by the terrorist attacks of September 11, was felt all over the world. However, it was the media in North America that blew it out of proportion. People began coming up with many conspiracy stories to answer the unanswerable questions that the attacks posed. People blamed the United Sates Government, saying they staged the attack, while others looked directly at the Middle East for the culprits. At one point it was impossible tell who staged the attack yet this did not stop anyone from making assumptions. With the fingers pointing all over and everybody getting blamed for something the government took the only action they could; seek revenge against one of their enemies, and shut down anyone who believed something different form their own point of view. This tactic spawned an entire wave of censorship. People in the media could not voice their opinions anymore without facing ridicule from government supporters. The censorship of people's ideas became ridiculous, and most people were now trying to uncover the real reason behind why the government censors certain information and opinions from the general public. The government was pointlessly censoring people's personal opinions; they were hiding the truths that the government did not want the general public to discover. Many tried to expose the government practices of censoring and the techniques they utilize to guard certain secrets and vital information that should not only be privy to high ranking government officials. As citizens of democratic nations our right to the freedom of expression are being trampled on by the same government body that is supposed to ensure and protect this right for reasons that the government does not and will not openly justify.

The media has always been heavily influenced by politicians and people with power because they can control, to some degree, the funding of these different media networks. In the months following the September 11 attacks,...