Many important issues are handled very superficially by television news shows. If you're looking for details on important stories, you'll find that today's TV news is "all sizzle and no steak." That's because it's safer and easier and less expensive for TV news editors to tell you only the federal or state government's side of each story. (This is especially true if the government is in possession of almost all the physical evidence.) It would take a lot of effort and expense to put conflicting viewpoints on television. After all, a documentary is a lot of work. That's especially true with a controversial topic like the Oklahoma City bombing. The official explanation of the Oklahoma City bombing, dispensed with no questions asked by the national news media, just doesn't add up.
And there are a number of sidebar issues in this story that are just a little too suspicious. For example, the remains of the half-destroyed Federal building were demolished just a few weeks after the explosion. What was the rush? A crime scene of this importance is usually pored over for months after the incident. (People are still visiting the scene of the Kennedy assassination every day, studying all the distances and angles. A substantial percentage of the people roaming around Dealey Plaza do not believe the official lone-gunman explanation.) So why was the Murrah Building leveled so quickly?
This page gets a lot of hits. Apparently there are many people interested in this topic, for a variety of reasons. I suspect there are many people who distrust the national news media and the federal government as a result of the way this incident was reported.
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