Imperial Media Balks on Iran Story-Shades of Anthrax

   A week after 9-11 the anthrax attacks started.   9-11 had been blamed on, well, it's a long story, but the basic gist of it is that the US needed to destroy Afghanistan.   The media went along with this story obediently.
   Plus, they turned Bush into a strong and presidential hero.  This was odd.  It would have been just as easy to turn that unelected blithering idiot into a scapegoat, for hanging out at his Texas ranch the month of August, ignoring warnings, then spending the morning of 9-11 reading about a goat before hiding in a cave all day.  But no, I remember the TV showing him, after he came out of hiding and was flown back to Washington, striding manfully across the White House lawn, alone, like John Wayne, ready for a showdown, while the narrator spoke, in hushed tones, of the awe they felt of seeing his masterful command.

   But this very same media balked at the anthrax story, after a brief time of performing as directed.  The script they were supposed to follow  was that Iraq had mailed weaponized anthrax to innocent Americans, killing some and terrorizing millions.  People opened their mail wearing gloves, and letters to Congress (and the editor, the main way people had to communicate horizontally back then) were banned.
    For a couple of weeks, the media dutifully put fear into Americans, who responded not just by fearing envelopes, but also by stocking up on plastic and duct tape.
    Here's an interesting tidbit.  I just used a search engine to find articles about the destruction of 70 years worth of anthrax samples at Iowa State in Ames,  during the "investigation" of the anthrax attacks.  The FBI, headed by Robert Mueller, had OK'd the destruction.

   Why?  Why would Iowa State destroy a 7 decade trove of anthrax samples, right in the middle of an anthrax scare?  And why would the FBI OK such a move?  And why is it that the only newspaper article I could find to link to is a weekly in San Francisco?

   OK, it's not that the imperial media did a great job on debunking the "Iraq tried to kill us all with anthrax" narrative, but they did push back enough that we all know it was American anthrax, not Iraqi.   And then the entire hysteria was dropped down the Memory Hole, while 9-11 continues to this day.
    And the narrative for the attack on Iraq was an entirely different story, which the media happily participated in pushing.

    But, what strange sight is this?  Some of the media is balking on pushing the latest Iran story.  Two tankers were attacked in the Gulf of Oman yesterday.   One was a Japanese tanker, and, by an interesting coincidence, the prime minister of Japan was in Tehran,  meeting with the leader of Iran.
    Pompeo and Bolton promptly told us that Iran chose the time of a state meeting with the leader of Japan to attack a Japanese tanker.
   Why?  Um...….because Iran is just Evil like that?  We're supposed to just believe them, not think. And definitely don't use logic to look for a motive.  That is not usually allowed.  But this time, a majority of the people of the world have loudly proclaimed that the Official Story is clearly Bullshit.

   Is that the reason the imperial media has rebelled?   Well, not really rebelled, just meekly added some weasel words to their stenography.
    Some media outlets, including NPR, CNN and Reuters, added "no evidence" to their headlines.  That is odd.   They haven't talked about requiring evidence for ruling class claims since Colin Powell took his test tube to the UN.

   Is this an anthrax moment?

Update:  Never mind.  The brief moment of skepticism is gone, and they have fallen into line.