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2. In the chaos and confusion of the day, I'm quite sure we said things which turned out to be untrue or inaccurate - but at the time were based on the best information we had. We did what we always did - sourced our reports, used qualifying words like "apparently" or "it's reported" or "we're hearing" and constantly tried to check and double check the information we were receiving.
3. Our reporter Jane Standley was in New York on the day of the attacks, and like everyone who was there, has the events seared on her mind.
Originally posted by john124
Firefighters expected building 7 to collapse, so the BBC made a cock-up and said it already had collapsed when it hadn't. Makes more sense than a conspiracy.
The BBC always make silly errors - recently they quoted Fars (farce) news agency that Karroubi accepted Ahmadinejad as legitimate president. In fact reuters and most others also made that silly blunder which the then BBC copied. It's just incompotence, and not checking the facts beforehand.
"...we are getting word from New York that another building has collapsed and we understand this is a 47 story building ... is that smoke coming from this third collapse?" "Take a look at that right hand of the screen." "It's going down right now."
Originally posted by Lillydale
reply to post by Sean48
YUP! Guess who else had the scrip that day? FOX NEWS
"...we are getting word from New York that another building has collapsed and we understand this is a 47 story building ... is that smoke coming from this third collapse?" "Take a look at that right hand of the screen." "It's going down right now."
CNN correspondent Allan Dodds Frank reported by phone from Lower Manhattan. He described: "[J]ust two or three minutes ago there was yet another collapse or explosion. I'm now out of sight, a Good Samaritan has taken me in on Duane Street. But at a quarter to 11, there was another collapse or explosion following the 10:30 collapse of the second tower. And a firefighter who rushed by us estimated that 50 stories went down. The street filled with smoke. It was like a forest fire roaring down a canyon."
WTC 7 was a 47-story tower, so would have fitted the description of the estimated "50 stories" described by Frank. And it did indeed collapse completely. One could in fact accurately describe its demise with Frank's words: "The street filled with smoke. It was like a forest fire roaring down a canyon." However, this collapse did not happen until 5:20 that afternoon.
At 4:15 p.m., CNN reported, "We're getting information that one of the other buildings ... Building 7 ... is on fire and has either collapsed or is collapsing." At 4:27, Greg Barrow reported from New York for the BBC radio channel Five Live, "We are hearing reports from local media that another building may have caught light and is in danger of collapse." He added, "I'm not sure if it has yet collapsed, but the report we have is talking about Building 7." At 4:54, presenter Gavin Esler reported on the BBC's domestic television news channel, BBC News 24: "We're now being told that yet another enormous building has collapsed. ... It is the 47-story Salomon Brothers building." At 4:57, presenter Phil Hayton announced on the BBC's international channel, BBC World, "We've got some news just coming in actually that the Salomon Brothers building in New York right in the heart of Manhattan has also collapsed." [2] However, WTC 7 (the "Salomon Brothers building") did not collapse until almost 25 minutes later.
Originally posted by Sean48
Well I see most of the Peanut gallery has punched in.
No plausible reason's for disagreeing, just emoticon's (sign of intelligence)
I would like ATS to have a Poll , who agrees in the OS ,and who believes the
Gov were involved.
I think many respondants would be surprised the number here on ATS
think the OS is a crock.
We already know 67% of American's feel the Gov were involved,
maybe it is ATS members who are Below the curve.
[edit on 27-1-2010 by Sean48]
[edit on 27-1-2010 by Sean48]
Originally posted by Alfie1
I have no doubt there is plenty of mileage left in 9/11 trutherism.
After all, here are some truthers with another agenda who have been going nearly 200 years :-
theflatearthsociety.org...
Originally posted by Sean48
Originally posted by Alfie1
I have no doubt there is plenty of mileage left in 9/11 trutherism.
After all, here are some truthers with another agenda who have been going nearly 200 years :-
theflatearthsociety.org...
Actually Alf
That was the OS for the time period
You are not unique in your beliefs
Originally posted by Joey Canoli
Originally posted by truthquest
Why are you attacking the person making the argument instead of explaining why they are incorrect?
Cuz it's been 8 years, and the TM has gone NOWHERE.
Originally posted by Badgered1
I'd like all the OS believers (especially those who have joined this thread simply to try to ridicule rather than actually add anything intelligent) to read through the many 'coincidences' of the day and try to find any other day in history, anywhere in the world, that had the same number of "oopsies". (Oh, 7/7 doesn't count...)
Once you've read through them all, come back and be truthful that you think all these coincidences were simply that. Ah, but remember that you have to be truthful.
As for WTC7 and the BBC report, didn't the BBC 'lose' their footage somehow? BBC footage of the most incredibly historic day just got erased.
What a coincidence.
Originally posted by Alfie1
I think the fact that some people seem to sincerely believe that the BBC's premature announcement of the collapse of WTC 7, on an afternoon when it had been expected for hours, means they were given a script by the perps as to how it was going to go down is more indicative of truther critical faculties than anything else.