Mark Crispin Miller

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

In a June 2001 profile by Chris Hedges for The New York Times, Miller described himself as a "public intellectual" and criticized television news "that is astonishingly empty and distorts reality".^[4] He has appeared on the Useful Idiots podcast and was praised by its host, Matt Taibbi.^[5][6]

In his social and political commentary, Miller frequently espouses conspiracy theories.^[7]

On social media and in other statements, Miller has promoted conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks;^[8] Miller is a signatory to the 9/11 Truth Statement^[9] and a member of the 9/11 Truth movement.^[8][10] He dislikes the term "conspiracy theory", calling the phrase a "meme" used to "discredit people engaged in really necessary kinds of investigation and inquiry." In a 2017 New York Observer interview, he said anyone using the term "in a pejorative sense" is "a witting or unwitting CIA asset".^[11]

In his book Fooled Again, Miller claims that the 2000 and 2004 U.S. presidential elections were stolen.^[12] He has since claimed that the 2020 U.S. Presidential election was stolen.^[7]

In 2016, Miller gave a speech to the Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.^[7] After a "truthers" symposium on 9/11, Miller told Vice that the official explanations for 9/11 and John F. Kennedy's assassination "are just as unscientific as the ones that everybody feels comfortable ridiculing".^[13]

In a blog post, Miller suggested that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax; in a subsequent interview, he denied that any children died in the shooting and voiced "suspicion" that "it was staged" or was "some kind of an exercise".^[7] Miller praised a Sandy Hook denial book by James Fetzer as "compelling" (a $450,000 defamation judgment had previously been entered against Fetzer, after the father of one of the murdered Sandy Hook students sued him for false statements made in the book).^[7]

Miller has also screened for his students the anti-vaccination film Vaxxed, produced by disgraced^[14] former physician Andrew Wakefield (who was struck off the medical register in the UK for scientific misconduct).^[8][11] Miller has spread COVID-19 misinformation, including misleading claims about the efficacy of face masks and false claims that COVID-19 vaccines alter recipients' DNA,^[7][15] and believes the virus may have been an artificially created bioweapon.^[16]

Miller's books include:

• Miller, Mark Crispin (1988). Boxed in: the Culture of TV. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. ISBN 0-8101-0791-0. OCLC 18017073.^{[17][18][19][20]}
• Seeing Through Movies (edited, 1990), Pantheon Books.^[21]
• The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder (2001)^[22]
• Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order (2004), W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0-393-05917-0.^[23]
• Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them) (2005), New York: Basic Books ISBN 0-465-04579-0.^[24]
• Loser Take All : Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008 (IG Publishing, December 2008, ISBN 978-0978843144)

• 2004 United States election voting controversies

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