QuantumLogic said:I put Jim Marrs in the list due to some of the experiences I had on ATS. Many of the same people who were trashing Laura on that site were the ones putting Jim Marrs on a pedestal. I also found it curious that his book "The Terror Conspiracy" was distributed by a publisher named "The Disinformation Company". Even back then that raised somewhat of a red flag to me. I understand publishers can have interesting names, but "The Disinformation Company"?
Yeah, it's a strange name, but I think they mean it in a kind of tongue-in-cheek way. They publish books which ostensibly expose disinformation, e.g., a lot of books with titles like, "Everything you know about ____ is wrong." I don't think they're much different than any other 'alternative' press: the publish some good books and some bad ones, e.g., they published Naomi Klein's first book.
Perhaps he has changed,or perhaps I am misreading him altogether, but he seems like he is more interested in selling books and DVDs. It was the material in his book "Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy" that was the basis for the film "JFK", which after seeing "Evidence of Revision" makes me think his book and the JFK film were a purposeful misdirection. I am also skeptical of his work and motives due to the sheer coverage he has been given by mainstream media over the years, OSIT.
Crossfire was basically the book that made him famous, since it sold so well. Marrs himself thinks that's the main reason he still has a mainstream publisher: he makes them money. The reason Disinfo published his 911 book is that his normal publisher, after agreeing to publish it, bailed on him and cancelled the project. I think overall Marrs is a good journalist. Crossfire is pretty widely regarded among JFK researchers as an essential work because it's so encyclopedic (it deals with the LBJ connection, introduced important witnesses who hadn't had any mainstream coverage until then, and triggered a renewal of sorts of skepticism among the public about the official story). Stone's movie may have been based on it in part (Stone also used Prouty's material), but there's really a lot more to Marrs's book than what was in the film. Not saying he had (or has) the whole banana, but he definitely presents some interesting and often pretty comprehensive information (e.g., I found a lot of useful stuff in his "Rise of the Fourth Reich"). He seems to have a more level head than most of the people writing about the same topics, IMO. I could be wrong, of course!