Mark Crispin Miller

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Mark Crispin Miller is professor of media studies at New York University and the author of the book: Fooled Again, How the Right Stole the 2004 Elections. He is known for his writing on American media and for his activism on behalf of democratic media reform. His books include Boxed In: The Culture of TV, Seeing Through Movies, and Mad Scientists, a study of war propaganda.

Miller writes in his book, Fooled Again, that both the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Presidential elections were "stolen". Miller presents extensive documentation, backed by 56 pages of notes, supporting his contention that the outcome of both elections was altered and controlled by a small minority. He states that the American voting populace can no longer assume that their votes will be accurately assessed, and that the installation of electronic voting machines in state after state is a fundamental flaw in the U.S. electoral system. He appeared in the 2004 documentary Orwell Rolls in His Grave, which focuses on the hidden mechanics of the media, its role as it should be and what it actually is, and how it shapes (to the point of almost controlling) U.S. politics.

[edit] Bibliography

• Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them)
• Boxed In: The Culture of Television
• The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder (Norton)
• Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order
• A Patriot Act (play/film)

[edit] Quotes

• "The Right will steal the next one too - unless we stop them."

• "Big brother is you, watching."

• “If this movement were to be given a name, I think it would most appropriate to call it Christo-Fascism, and if anyone objects to my using the word fascism, because it seems so redolent of the Axis powers, and after all we valiantly defeated fascism once, well understand this about fascism, when it arrives it never shows up in the discarded costume of some other country, and when fascism comes here, its not going to be wearing a toothbrush mustache with a luger in his belt and go goose-stepping around the mall, because that’s Germany. And its precisely characteristic of fascism, that it seems absolutely, totally expressive of the homeland, it seems completely familiar, it’s when 150% America puts a flag on it’s lapel and a cross around it’s neck and a real folksy way a talkin’, but just because it’s red, white and blue, doesn’t mean it’s American.” - Mark Crispin Miller, A Patriot Act

[edit] External links

• Official bio at New York University's Department of Culture & Communication
• Official blog News From Underground
• Author interview in Guernica Magazine (Guernicamag.com)
• recorded interview with Miller, part one
• recorded interview with Miller, part two