There is an article in the Washington Post this morning - reprinted in the Calgary Herald today - talking about this specific film and other conspiracy theories and the attractiveness of them. The story examines the rapidity with which conspiracy films like the one about the Pentagon 9/11 attack can rapidly gain strength in this day and age:
American history is rife with conspiracy theories. Extremists have fed rumors of secret plots by Masons, bankers, Catholics and Communists. But now urban legends have become cyberlegends, and suspicions speed their way globally not over months and weeks but within days and hours on the Web.
"The dissemination is almost immediate," said Doug Thomas, a University of Southern California communications professor who teaches classes on technology and subgroups. "It's not just one Web site saying, 'Hey, look at this.' It's 10,000 people sending e-mails to 10 friends, and then they send it on."
"It seems that since the end of the Cold War, the enemy is the United States government, the enemy is within," said Rick Ross, whose Ross Institute of New Jersey monitors cults and other controversial groups, many of which see manipulative forces working behind the scenes. "Instead of projecting conspiracy theories out, it's become internalized."
You may have to register to read this but it would be worth your time:
"Conspiracy Theories Flourish On The Internet"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...9-2004Oct6.html
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