Mark Crispin Miller

Mark Crispin Miller (born 1949) is a professor of media studies at New York University.

Miller graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in 1971, Johns Hopkins University with an MA in 1973, and a Ph.D. in 1977. His parents, Jordan and Anita Miller, founded Academy Chicago Publishers.

Miller is known for his writing on American media and activism advocating democratic media reform. His books include Boxed In: The Culture of TV, Seeing Through Movies, Fooled Again, How the Right Stole the 2004 Elections, and Mad Scientists, a study of war propaganda.

In the introduction to Seeing Through Movies, Miller argues that the nature of American films has been affected by the impact of advertising. 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.

In a June 2001 New York Times profile, Miller told Chris Hedges of his desire "to, as a public intellectual, take a fresh look at the news that we take in daily from TV, news that is astonishingly empty and distorts reality".

According to Miller's book Fooled Again, the 2000 and 2004 U.S. presidential elections were stolen. Miller presents evidence supporting his contention that a small minority altered and controlled the outcomes of both elections. He states that the American voting populace can no longer assume that its votes will be accurately counted, and that the widespread installation of electronic voting machines is a fundamental flaw in the U.S. electoral system. He appeared in the 2004 documentary Orwell Rolls in His Grave, which focuses on the hidden mechanics of the media, what its role should be and actually is, and how it shapes (to the point of almost controlling) U.S. politics.

Miller is a signatory to the 9/11 Truth Statement and a member of the 9/11 Truth movement. In a New York Observer interview, he said anyone describing that movement as a conspiracy theory "in a pejorative sense is a witting or unwitting CIA asset". Following a "truthers" symposium on 9/11, "Justice in Focus", Miller told Vice the official explanations for 9/11 and John F. Kennedy's assassination "are just as unscientific as the ones that everybody feels comfortable ridiculing", referring to conservatives' dismissal of global warming. Miller has shown his students the disgraced physician Andrew Wakefield's anti-vaccination film Vaxxed, and has defended the false claims Vaxxed makes of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, and the assertion that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been involved in a cover-up.

Miller is currently under a behavioral review by New York University, as a result of a complaint made about his sharing with his students his view that masks are ineffective against the spread of COVID-19. The review refers to not only his stance on masking, but on other issues students have repeatedly raised, including his beliefs that transgender surgery is a eugenic form of sterilization and that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax. Miller has sued his colleagues at the university for libel, demanding $750,000 in damages for harming his "career and professional standing".

Miller's books include:

• Boxed in: the Culture of TV. Evanston, IL. ISBN 0-8101-0791-0. OCLC 18017073.
• Seeing Through Movies (edited, 1990)
• The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder (2001)
• Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order (2004)
• Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them) (2005)