Mark Crispin Miller (born 6 November 1949) is an American media scholar and a professor of media studies at New York University. He has promoted conspiracy theories about U.S. presidential elections, the September 11 attacks and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as well as misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines.

Background and career

Miller has a doctorate in English from Johns Hopkins University. He has said that the multinational corporations in control of the U.S. media have changed youth culture's focus away from values and toward commercial interests and personal vanity.

In a June 2001 profile by Chris Hedges for The New York Times, Miller called himself a "public intellectual" and criticized television news "that is astonishingly empty and distorts reality". In December 2020 he appeared on the Useful Idiots podcast and was praised by its host, Matt Taibbi.

Promotion of conspiracy theories and disinformation

In his social and political commentary, Miller frequently espouses conspiracy theories.

On social media and in other statements, Miller has promoted conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks; and a member of the 9/11 Truth movement. 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".

In 2017, Miller told a session at the Left Forum that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had not dropped barrel bombs on his own people, that the allegation of a crematorium at Sednaya Prison was a hoax, and that the chemical attacks on Sunni areas were actually staged by the victims (with help from Turkey in the main 2013 case) to draw the U.S. into the war.

Election fraud conspiracy theories

In his book Fooled Again, Miller claims that the 2000 and 2004 U.S. presidential elections were stolen. He has since claimed that the 2020 U.S. Presidential election was stolen. He claimed that the 2000 election was rigged in favor of George W. Bush over Al Gore to allow the war on terror, that the 2004 election was again rigged for Bush to ensure victory over John Kerry, that the 2016 election was rigged to allow Donald Trump to defeat Hillary Clinton but that Trump was legitimately reelected in 2020 (or just "elected", as Miller claims his first term in office was actually an "ascension" due its illegitimacy) and despite that was stolen to force him out of office and replace him with Joe Biden.

Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre hoax conspiracy theory

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". former physician Andrew Wakefield (who was struck off the medical register in the UK for scientific misconduct). and believes the virus may have been an artificially created bioweapon.

Books

Miller's books include:

  • Seeing Through Movies (edited, 1990), Pantheon Books.
  • The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder (2001)
  • Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order (2004), W.W. Norton & Company, .
  • 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 .
  • Loser Take All : Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008 (IG Publishing), December 2008, )

See also

  • 2004 United States election voting controversies

References

  • Official faculty biography from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
  • Official blog (inactive)
  • Official Substack page (active)