Michael Loewinger
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1,796 appearances
17 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2d ago
Michael Loewinger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We were looking for blame elsewhere.
grief, anger, and blind patriotism that defined the months following 9-11 were unsustainable.
The clearest cracks began to show when America began to confront the cruelty of our new wars.
The year those pictures went public, 2004, turns out to be a big year for the Truther movement.
The same year the Abu Ghraib story broke, we learned that the New York Times had been duped big time.
The paper had run a series of bad stories featuring leaks from anonymous sources from within the Bush administration.
Stories which were then used by the administration to justify the war in Iraq.
Movement gained traction.
Charles Strozier points to what might be the earliest poll on 9-11 trutherism, which found that in August of 2004, almost half of New Yorkers believed the US government had known the attacks were coming and consciously failed to act.
Which is to say that a year before Loose Change had even been uploaded to the web, there was a demonstrable appetite for it.
When I brought up Loose Change in an editorial meeting a few weeks back, I framed this as a story about an early example of the internet breaking our brains.
And maybe there's something to that, but it's just one piece of a bigger story.
9-11
What's clear to me now is that
Propaganda pushed by the Bush administration broke our brains.
Images of those far-off wars broke our brains.
Disastrously bad journalism broke our brains.
9-11 broke our brains.
In part because it rightfully shook our faith in the myth that America was exceptional.
That America was invincible.
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