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]
Conspiracy-theory and disinformation promotion
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]
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".[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]
The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder (2001)[22]
Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order (2004), W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN0-393-05917-0.[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 ISBN0-465-04579-0.[24]
Loser Take All : Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008 (IG Publishing, December 2008, ISBN978-0978843144)
^ abcKennedy, Dominic (June 13, 2020). "Conspiracy theories spread by academics with university help". The Times. ISSN0140-0460. Archived from the original on 13 June 2020. Retrieved June 14, 2020. The founders of the OPS include Piers Robinson, a former journalism professor at Sheffield, and Mark Crispin Miller, a media professor at New York University. Both are 9/11 "Truthers" who challenge the official explanation of the World Trade Center attacks. Professor Crispin Miller has shown his students the film Vaxxed, made by Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced British doctor struck off for falsely linking the MMR jab to autism.
^Kennedy, Dominic (10 April 2020). "British academics sharing coronavirus conspiracy theories online". The Times & The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2023. Another director, Mark Crispin Miller, a professor at New York University, has written that the coronavirus "may be an artificially created bioweapon".
^Rabinovitz, Lauren (1991). Marc, David; Miller, Mark Crispin; Kaplan, E. Ann; Fiske, John (eds.). "Television Criticism and American Studies". American Quarterly. 43 (2): 358–370. doi:10.2307/2712935. ISSN0003-0678. JSTOR2712935.
^The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder, W.W. Norton, ISBN0-393-32296-3, 2001. Reviews: Jill Ortner, Library Journal, [1]; Elayne Tobin, The Nation, [2]; Publishers Weekly
^Reviews: "Early Evaluations of the Bush Presidency", Karen M. Hult and Charles E. Walcott, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, JSTOR41940149; Michael A. Genovese, Library Journal, [3]; David Lotto, Journal of Psychohistory, [4]