9-11/Media response
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 An inset of Ossama Bin Laden in the same frame as a plane about to impact the World Trade Center towers. While the collapse of WTC 7 was not shown at all, the collapses of WTC 1 & 2 were repeated a lot by news broadcasts in the days and weeks following September 11th, 2001. | |
| The failure of the media corporations to investigate 9-11 on any level is an indictment of the controlled nature of the corporate media of the 21st century. Independent media has to an increasing extent filled the gap, as the unwelcome truth of September 11th is accepted by ever more people. |
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Corporate media
On the day itself, there was a relatively wide variety of material produced. For example, many reports of bombs going off in the WTC were televised, and live, on the spot reporting evinced skepticism and even incredulity about the official narrative. Media reports from the day itself are particularly recommended to those researching the truth of 9/11. By the next day, several of these primary reports had vanished never to be rebroadcast as the careful decisions of senior editors saw the commercially-controlled media fall in lock step with the US government's official narrative about "19 men with box cutters".
Burying of existing news
Pre-9-11 news stories, such as the Pentagon's trillions of unaccounted funds or the new evidence in the Lockerbie case were effectively buried, under a long (2-4 week?)[citation needed] "no real news, but we're showing it to you again" extended spectacle which uncritically echoed the US government's story of Al Qaeda. The Internet Archive has assembled and published a collection of over 3,000 hours of 9/11 TV News.[1]
World Trade Center 1 & 2
In marked contrast to their absolute silence about WTC7, the corporate media played countless repeats of the planes hitting the twin towers, often with an inset of Ossama Bin Laden in the corner, as if to establish a link between the two.
World Trade Center 7 foreknowledge
- Full article: 9-11/WTC7/Collapse/Censorship
- Full article: 9-11/WTC7/Collapse/Censorship
Perhaps the most dramatic demonstration of how big media just follows orders is how it provided by the unprecedented collapse of World Trade Center 7. BBC[2] and Fox News[3] both announced before the collapse of this building that it "had collapsed" while [MSNBC]] reported having "heard several reports from several different officers now that [WTC7] is the building that is going to go down next"[4] and CBS also passed on such reports.[5]. The source of these reports has been obfuscated and commercially-controlled media basically didn't go near the topic of WTC7 until the above videos of their reporting it started to circulate widely on the internet.
Popular Mechanics
Popular mechanics has been perhaps the most vocal in its efforts to 'debunk' any theories challenging the 9-11#Official narrative.[6]
Hit pieces
Many hit pieces have been written to try to ridicule the 9/11 Truth Movement.[7]
Independent Media
The rise of citizen journalism, especially using the internet has proved a boon to 9-11 researchers, and several significant efforts exist online which highlight weaknesses of the 9/11 official narrative.
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/911
- ↑ BBC report of the collapse of WTC 7 with the building clearly visible in the background
- ↑ Fox reports WTC 7 collapse before it happens
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STOJz9qCQ1A
- ↑ WTC7 Expected To Collapse CBS2 News
- ↑ http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a6384/debunking-911-myths-world-trade-center/
- ↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14665953
