What is the truth about 9/11?
Whatever the truth is about America's World Trade Center disaster on September 11, 2001, it's beginning to look like it won't be too much longer before the world finds out.
Elizabeth Woodworth writing for Global Research, published an article entitled: The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9/11 Truth Movement
Here's the abstract quoted directly from the article:
In the past year, in response to emerging independent science on the 9/11 attacks, nine corporate, seven public, and two independent media outlets aired analytic programs investigating the official account.
Increasingly, the issue is treated as a scientific controversy worthy of debate, rather than as a "conspiracy theory" ignoring science and common sense.
This essay presents these media analyses in the form of 18 case studies.
Eight countries - Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Russia - have allowed their publicly-owned broadcasting stations to air the full spectrum of evidence challenging the truth of the official account of 9/11.
This more open approach taken in the international media - I could also have included the Japanese media - might be a sign that worldwide public and corporate media organizations are positioning themselves, and preparing their audiences, for a possible revelation of the truth of the claim that forces within the US government were complicit in the attacks - a revelation that would call into question the publicly given rationale for the military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
The evidence now being explored in the international media may pave the way for the US media to take an in-depth look at the implications of what is now known about 9/11, and to re-examine the country's foreign and domestic policies in the light of this knowledge.
The remainder of the article is structured like this:
I. Introduction
Observations on the Analysis (5 points)
II. Scientific Paper Finds Nano-thermite Explosives in World Trade Center Dust, April 3, 2009
Reported Evidence that Nano-thermite is a Military Substance
Early Coverage of the Nano-thermite Finding in the European Mainstream Press
III. The Changing Mainstream Media Treatment of 9/11 Evidence from early 2009 to early 2010: 18 Case Studies
Case Study 1: The Dutch TV Mock Trial of Osama bin Laden, April 25, 2009
Case Study 2: Architect Richard Gage in Canada's "Financial Post", April 25, 2009
Case Study 3: Norwegian State Radio's Public Debate on 9/11 Truth, May 21, 2009
Case Study 5: The National Geographic Documentary, 9/11: Science and Conspiracy, August 31, 2009
Case Study 6: Germany's Weekly TV Guide, TV Hören und Sehen, August 31, 2009
Case Study 7: Two California Newspapers Review the Role of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, September 2009
Case Study 8: Dr. Niels Harrit on NRK1's Schrödinger's Cat, September 10, 2009
Case Study 9 : London's Daily Mail asks whether Osama bin Laden is Dead, September 11, 2009
Case Study 10. The New Statesman announces Dr. David Ray Griffin as No. 41 in "The Fifty People who Matter Today," September 24, 2009
Case Study 12: "The Unofficial Story", by CBC's The Fifth Estate, November 27, 2009
Case Study 13: New Zealand TV's Close Up hosts Architect Richard Gage, November 27, 2009
Case Study 14 : 9/11 Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, TruTV, Premiere December 9, 2009
Case Study 15: German Federal Judge Dieter Deiseroth Questions the Official 9/11 Investigation, December 15, 2009
Case Study 16: Germany's Focus Money says: "We Do Not Believe You!" January 8, 2010
Case Study 17: Televised documentary, The BBC's Conspiracy Files: Osama bin Laden - Dead or Alive? January 10, 2010
Case Study 18 : An American Union Paper Calls for a New Probe, February 1, 2010
IV. Summary and Concluding Observations
1. In the past year, in response to emerging independent science on the 9/11 attacks, nine corporate, seven public, and two independent media outlets aired examinations of the issue, which were all - with the exception of the National Geographic special - reasonably objective, examining the issue as a legitimate scientific controversy worthy of debate (not as "conspiracy theorists" vs. science and common sense).
2. Eight countries - Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Russia - have allowed their publicly-owned broadcasting stations to air the full spectrum of evidence challenging the truth of the official account of 9/11.
3. These developments may reflect a relaxation in the international media following the change in the US and British leaderships.
4. These developments definitely reflect, in any case, the fact that scientists in the 9/11 Truth Movement have recently succeeded in getting papers, such as the nano-thermite paper, published in peer-reviewed journals.
5. These developments surely also reflect the general professionalism of the 9/11 Truth Movement, as exemplified by the emergence of not only Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth but also Firefighters, Intelligence Officers, Lawyers, Medical Professionals, Pilots, Political Leaders, Religious Leaders, Scholars, and Veterans for 9/11 Truth.
6. These developments seem to reflect, moreover, an increased recognition of the importance of the 9/11 Truth Movement, which is demonstrated by two honors given to its most influential member, Dr. David Ray Griffin, that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago: the choice by Publishers Weekly of one of his books as a "Pick of the Week," and his inclusion in the New Statesman's list of the most important people in the world today.
This more open approach taken in the international media - I could also have included the Japanese media - might be a sign that worldwide public and corporate media organizations are positioning themselves, and preparing their audiences, for a possible revelation of the truth of the claim that forces within the US government were complicit in the attacks - a revelation that would call into question the publicly given rationale for the military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
The evidence now being explored in the international media may pave the way for the US media to take an in-depth look at the implications of what is now known about 9/11, and to re-examine the country's foreign and domestic policies in the light of this knowledge.
Elizabeth Woodworth is a retired professional health sciences librarian, and a freelance writer. She is the author of two published books and many articles on political and social justice issues.
The full article includes 58 footnotes with links to corresponding references, and can be found here.
The article is also hosted with a subtitle: Part II: A Survey of Attitude Change in 2009-2010, and can be found here.
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