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Originally posted by occams razor2
I defy those in the so-called 9/11 'truth' movement to subject their pet theories to the same level of scrutiny that they subject the official report. They can't, because the theories are so ridiculously preprosterous that they would fall apart like a house of cards.
Originally posted by Identified
Love your name! I often find myself falling back on Occam's Razor
"All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one."
Or as Carl Sagan said: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
I just cant see them making a mistake like this?
Originally posted by endrna
NEWS ORGANIZATION
COULD SOMEHOW POSSIBLY LOSE EVERY BIT OF FOOTAGE THEY
HAD OF ONE OF THEIR OWN REPORTERS DOING A REPORT FOR
THEIR OWN BBC STATION IS THE BEST EVIDENCE OF ALL THAT
THEIR IS A COVER UP, A CONSPIRACY SURROUNDING THE EVENTS
OF 9/11.
WHEN YOU SPIN A WEB TO DECEIVE OF THIS MAGNITUDE STUPID
EXCUSES LIKE THEY LOST THEIR OWN ARCHIVE FOOTAGE
ALLOWS THEM TO HANG THEMSELVES.
WAKE UP AMERICA, BEFORE THE MIND CONTROL POLICE TAKE OVER
Originally posted by Jgruh4e
Couldn't agree more... But what happened with this story? I mean when i fist read it i saw it as a 'smoking gun' evidence. Still it never reached the MSM, which is proof in itself. Anyways, did anything develop from it?
Originally posted by Muppetus Galacticus
I think we have exhausted everyone's opinion on the press and so called "proof" that the world's media was in on it.
Originally posted by ANOK
C'mon, no one is claiming the media is actually 'in on it'. If they are then they need to re-think their position.
But anyway unless you understand and except that the media is controlled on so many levels by those who have the power to do so, you wouldn't understand or except how the media could report something that hadn't happened yet and not even realise it themselves.Until they're confronted with it. But maintaining the status quo, that gives the media it's business, is more important than the truth. So they deny publicly and deny to themselves by convincing themselves it's anything but the truth. Like a muppetus on a string...[edit on 17/4/2007 by ANOK]
Originally posted by Muppetus Galacticus
...Do you have personal experience in the news of world that led you to this belief or was it through research?
Information that we receive concerning the real world is carefully controlled...Jeremy Ratter
Originally posted by ANOK
Both actually.
Maybe you need to read more, or live more? ('The Violent Decade' by Gervasi, a US foreign corespondent 1934-1944, is a good one)[/quote
Well I do read a lot, the living part is a bit more difficult due to illness. I rarely even watch the news anyway, mostly just for big breaking events, so I don't believe or dis-believe them because they are not part of my world. I get my news from a number of sources and make my own mind up with the information I have at my fingertips. Thanks for the book suggestion, I am always on the lookout for more reading material
Originally posted by ANOKThe media has been controlled since the day the printing press was invented. It's rather naive to think a government (and corporations), any government, would not control it's countries media.
Just do some research on events in history and what the media was reporting at the time.
Or in fact just look around you...
Information that we receive concerning the real world is carefully controlled...Jeremy Ratter
[edit on 17/4/2007 by ANOK]
I am not saying there is zero control - of course there is some - but I just don't see every newspaper and TV station in the world being controlled that much.
And we are not talking about a Government or nation here as at least four broadcasters from around the world reported that WTC7 was down before it actually was. CNN, BBC, a news channel in Belgium and I think one in Holland are the ones I know did just that. And all they did was read it off the wire and didn't go all out to confirm it on the ground before going on air - another part of that hectic day where everyone is trying to keep on top of things.
Are you then a proponent of the NWO who would control the media around the world?
Reviewer: cheifet - 5 out of 5 stars - March 4, 2007
Subject: Some Background and Context for this Clip
I am Director of Collections at the Internet Archive, responsible for all video and audio files.
This video clip is part of a collection from the TV Archive of global television coverage of the events that occurred on and shortly after September 11, 2001.
This clip, among others, has drawn quite a bit of attention because it appears to show a BBC reporter in New York reporting that World Trade Center Building 7, also referred to as WTC7 or the Salomon Brothers Building, has collapsed before it actually did collapse.
Despite some confusion on the issue of time code stamping and UTC conversions to EDT, the timing on the clip appears to be correct. This particular clip was recorded between 4:54 and 5:36 PM EDT. The anchor references to the WTC7 collapsing occur at 4:58 PM and 5:01 PM and then a live reporter says the building has collapsed at 5:08 PM in what appears to be a live shot with the building still in tact behind her. The feed from the live reporter is lost at 5:15 PM and then the building does actually collapse at 5:20 PM.
A subsequent clip from the BBC then shows coverage of the actual collapse in an archived account recorded from 5:36 – 6:16PM. This clip is available at www.archive.org... .
An annotated version of the key sequence from this clip can be seen at www.youtube.com... .
Further support for the correct timing on the clip comes from another archived clip, this one from the BBC 24 channel which includes a time stamp on the TV screen indicating that the reference to the collapses of WTC7 does occur before the actual collapse.
There is some discussion as to whether or not that time stamp was later edited in by someone tampering with the clip. It is unclear whether that happened or not but the reporting and the time of the reporting as shown does seem to coincide with the other BBC World report. This clip can be seen at various web sites including www.prisonplanet.com... .
Also there has been some discussion about whether the shot of the WTC7 still standing was a live shot or a so-called “green screen” shot in which the live reporter was photographed in front of an electronic screen with a superimposed image of videotape of earlier coverage. That could explain the time disparity; however other clips seem to support the view that the video behind the BBC reporter in this clip is indeed live.
This clip is being widely circulated on the web along with other 9/11 news coverage clips that have surfaced. The earliest apparent reports of WTC7 collapsing come from CNN which reports before 5PM that WTC7 is either burning, is collapsing or has collapsed. You can see this clip at www.youtube.com... . That story then gets repeated later on BBC 24 and BBC World. Similar coverage on ABC can be found posted at www.youtube.com... .
Assuming all the time references are correct, there are two possible explanations offered for the confusion. One is that the building was intentionally brought down by its owner and that a press release indicating that was prematurely issued and prematurely reported on by the media.
Another explanation is that there was simply confusion at the time and some journalistic “whispering down the lane” in which early stories that there was something happening at WTC7 led to rumors of its collapsing which then led to on-air reporting of its collapse. The fact that the WTC7 is still standing and visible in the background of the live shot appears to confirm that the reporting of the collapse did take place before the actual collapse.
One possible explanation for the apparent clairvoyance of the reporter, or the alleged deception by those in charge, is that there was a fire at WTC7 when it was first reported on CNN at approximately 4:10 PM and that the BBC then picked up that story from CNN and reported that the WTC7 might be collapsing and in the confusion of live news coverage that story then was communicated to the anchor and the reporter that the building had collapsed.
Additional information may be available from other television network coverage of that same period of time which has also been archived by the TV Archive. This includes coverage from ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and CNN. Efforts are underway to gather that additional archive footage so that a more comprehensive picture can be presented of what really happened that day.
Other references and discussions related to this clip can be found at various other web sites including www.livelead.com... , www.911truth.org... , www.prisonplanet.com... , www.informationliberation.com... , www.911blogger.com... , and www.digg.com... .
The official BBC statement regarding its explanation for the mistaken reporting can be found at www.bbc.co.uk... .
Added March 4, 2007 at 9:13 AM PST.
The BBC has now posted new information in an effort to explain the apparent errors in this report. It is available at
www.bbc.co.uk... .