Mark Crispin Miller

Mark Crispin Miller (born 1949) is professor of media studies at New York University.[1]

Miller speaking at New York City's Open Center in 2012.

Background and career

Miller graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in 1971, Johns Hopkins University with an MA in 1973, and a Ph.D. in 1977. His parents, Jordan and Anita Miller, founded Academy Chicago Publishers.

Miller is known for his writing on American media and activism advocating democratic media reform, his books include Boxed In: The Culture of TV, Seeing Through Movies, Fooled Again, How the Right Stole the 2004 Elections, and Mad Scientists, a study of war propaganda.

In the introduction to Seeing Through Movies, Millerhe argues that the nature of American films has been affected by the impact of advertising.[2] Miller has said that the handful of multinational corporations in control of the American media have changed the focus of youth culture away from values and more towards commercial interests and personal vanity.[3]

Political and social commentary

In a June 2001 profile in The New York Times, Miller told Chris Hedges of his desire "to, as a public intellectual, take a fresh look at the news that we take in daily from TV, news that is astonishingly empty and distorts reality".[4]

According to Miller's book, Fooled Again, the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Presidential election were stolen. Miller presents evidence 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.

Miller is a 9/11 truther.[5][6] and is a signatory to the 9/11 Truth Statement.[7] Interviewed by the New York Observer website, Miller said anyone using the conspiracy theory description "in a pejorative sense is a witting or unwitting CIA asset".[8] Following a "truthers" symposium on 9/11, "Justice in Focus", Miller told Vice the official explanations for 9/11 and the assassination of John F. Kennedy "are just as unscientific as the ones that everybody feels comfortable ridiculing", referring to conservatives dismissal of global warming.[9] Miller shows his students the anti-vaccination film Vaxxed made by the disgraced physician Andrew Wakefield.[5] He has defended the false claims made in Vaxxed of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, and the assertion that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been involved in a cover-up.[8]

Books

Miller's books include:

  • Boxed In: The Culture of Television (1988)[10]
  • Seeing Through Movies (edited, 1990)[11]
  • The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder (2001)[12]
  • Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order (2004)[13]
  • Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them) (2005)[14]

See also

References
  1. "Mark Crispin Miller: Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication". NYU Steinhardt. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  2. Rothenberg, Randall (March 13, 1990). "The Media Business: Advertising; Is It a Film? Is It an Ad? Harder to Tell". The New York Times. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  3. "Interview: Mark Crispin Miller". Frontline. PBS. 2012 [2000]. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  4. Hedges, Chris (June 15, 2001). "Public Lives; Watching Bush's Language, and Television". The New York Times. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  5. Kennedy, Dominic (June 13, 2020). "Conspiracy theories spread by academics with university help". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved June 14, 2020. (subscription required)
  6. Keate, Georgie; Kennedy, Dominic; Shveda, Krystina; Haynes, Deborah (April 14, 2018). "Apologists for Assad working in British universities". The Times. London. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved June 14, 2020. (subscription required)
  7. Rossmier, Vincent (11 September 2009). "Would you still sign the 9/11 Truth petition?". Salon. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  8. Stutman, Gabe (July 26, 2017). "NYU Professor Uses Tenure to Advance 9/11 Hoax Theory". Observer. New York. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
  9. Thompson, Alex (September 12, 2016). "9/11 'truthers' vow to never, ever forget". Vice. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  10. Boxed In: The Culture of Television, Northwestern University Press, 1988. Review: "Television Criticism and American Studies", Lauren Rabinovitz, American Quarterly, JSTOR 2712935; "Cultural Power", Harold Fromm, The Georgia Review, JSTOR 41399517; A. Peck, Chicago Tribune, ; Barbara Welch Breder, Journal of Communication, doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1990.tb02266.x
  11. Seeing Through Movies, Pantheon, 1990. Reviews: James E. Vincent ETC, JSTOR 42577289; Janet. Staiger, Journal of Communication, doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1991.tb02325.x; Publishers Weekly
  12. The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-32296-3, 2001. Reviews: Jill Ortner, Library Journal, ; Elayne Tobin, The Nation, ; Publishers Weekly
  13. Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order, W.W. Norton & Company, 2004, ISBN 0-393-05917-0. Reviews: "Early Evaluations of the Bush Presidency", Karen M. Hult and Charles E. Walcott, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, JSTOR 41940149; Michael A. Genovese, Library Journal, ; David Lotto, Journal of Psychohistory,
  14. Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them), New York: Basic Books, 2005, ISBN 0-465-04579-0. Reviews: Publishers Weekly; Kirkus Reviews; Farhad Manjoo, Salon,
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