With almost all western media owned by 5 or 6 Corporations, each controlled by pretty much the same people, McLuhan has become correct - the media is now the message and the message is the same, with sometimes different flavours, from all media sources. Very few independent sources exist anymore so any message they want us to believe is very difficult to not see and harder to ignore.
While the CT part of 9/11 might belong in CE&P there is very clearly a role played by TV and media. I'm unsure what wreckage you speak of because right at the start there was pretty much no wreckage and only a hole that could never have accommodated more than the fuselage of the plane, so where are the hardened steel-titanium, high temperature, 6 tonne engines? The TV made sure we all got overdosed on the tiny scrap pieces later on but initial footage and photos showed nothing.
What sort of disaster has FBI racing around the area within an hour or so confiscating all video footage - surely THAT footage would have made GREAT viewing for the audiences, particularly once the CT's came along?
But of course, seeing an impossible plane could not have caused the damage we DID see, the TV played to the story designed to scare Americans (& the rest of the West eventually) into allowing them to pass an already prepared bill to strip away freedoms. In one fell swoop, radicalisation took a hug leap forward. The US Constitution is made null and void and GDubya set up to attack Iraq like they wanted.
Add to the changes being implemented by TV in particular but by media and web sources as well we have the ongoing campaign to make us all scared of each other. Stats show that cities were getting safer (per capita) for 40 years but in that same time polls showed people were getting more afraid of violence and other crimes than ever. It's difficult to understand how that could be until you look at the MSM, then it all falls into place.
Burglary in the media is now Home Invasion but you still get charged with burglary - why? Because Home Invasion is much more dramatic and instills more personalised fear.
And while people are scared, several things happen.
They tend to isolate themselves because of the generalised nature of the fear. If the fear was more specific they might band together - definitely that is not wanted.
They tend to become less variable in things like how they choose what to do, so getting them to vote a particular way is simpler. Once our politicians promised us good things, better lives, cleaner air and so on. Now they manufacture crises and then promise to keep us safe.
They tend to become sicker - fear puts us into a fight/flight state, which has bad effects on health. The immune system is part of the viscera, the life-supporting systems of our bodies and evoking F/F response means resources do not go to the viscera but to the emergency systems. A constant level of mild fear also causes long-term stress, which tends to multiply any issues people have, so a person who might normally restrain their anger will instead let it go, thus increasing the fear levels further.
It's a delicate game they play, because too much fear and you get an immense eruption from the population - governments fall in such times. But they have the experience. Ed Bernays (Freud's nephew) brought Freud's work to advertising and the advertising industry has been programming us ever since. The amount of virtually subliminal sex in ads for example is amazing once you start analysing it and they even quite openly tell us, "Sex Sells!" which may seem obvious but they put sex in EVERYTHING.
More programming can be found in music videos - there is a reason that in spite of changes to society in how women are to be treated, music videos are pretty much raw sex and the objectification of females. And the ones that aren't are normally violence prone. People who applauded the pixelation of the 'wardrobe malfunction' seem mostly content to allow sex videos to be screened during family time slots.
Given tests and observations keep showing the power mongers in our society respond very clearly to psychopath behaviour patterns, I think it takes a peculiar lack of imagination to NOT believe they would eagerly use every means they have to control the population. With programmed media being delivered from just a few media owners, they can pretty much make the public believe anything they want them to. 9/11 is just one example where impossible physics tells us it was all faked, yet the average Joe and Jane will actually get angry if we try to point out the impossibility of what they have been sold.
Now the secret rulers want more war. Do we really think a fluff movie like The Interview wasn't being used as a tool to get North Korea upset? Do we just disregard the evidence coming out showing CIA connections to ISIL/ISIS/IS or whatever they are going to call themselves next? The US and other countries have been arming insurgents across the Middle East just like they did and do in South America - rebels in Iran have been getting US aid for 20 years or more to keep the pot bubbling. Libya fell NOT because the people wanted Gaddafi gone but because the US did, to the point where they armed and aided al Qaeda to go get him - talk about classic 'enemy of my enemy.'
THE MSM don't report these things because they are not there to report news any more, they are a propaganda tool of the power mongers, wholly bought and under control. But they are not the 'real menace of the West' they are one of the tools of the real menace of the West.
