Journalists have failed to inform the public in an impartial and unbiased manner in many instances before. News corporations will not bite the hand that feeds, which is why we - the docile consuming public - are never informed that the real cause of global warming and climatic change are corporations. Corporations spend budgets larger than the GDP of many developing world countries trying to brainwash us - docile, consuming - viewers to buy and to consume. News corporations have a vested interest in advertising revenue and so won't bite the hand that feeds. That is already a conspiracy. Look at any article hosted by the fabulous MediaLens group (
http://www.medialens.org) and sign up for their email alerts. Now they do journalism, as do a number of the non-mainstream (i.e. non-corporate) outlets, and you will quickly see just how much of a symbiotic relationship news corporations and production/consumption corporations share. Both are parasitic however, and we, the - docile and consuming - viewing public are that parasite's host. Time to take the tick off our blood supply and break out of the hypnosis they have successfully lulled us into.
Perhaps this footage will be that leverage, maybe now people will wake from their stupor and realise that the news, as the corporate spokesperson for the government interests, is merely yet another tool of propaganda designed to make us stupid.
For the BBC Head of News to post a blog like the above offering by Mr Porter is really taking the p*ss. I don't like being the butt of Mr Porter's attempt at levity: Many decent people died that day and given that 911 was the pre-text to launch what was probably a pre-ordained attack plan against Iraq, many people have died and are still being killed as a direct consequence of 911. More specifically, they are dying as a direct result of what the governments of the UK and USA try to convince us happened.
And the news media are merely regurgitating uncritically the official narrative. Doesn't that make the BBC and its corporate cohorts at the least ethically responsible for allowing the Iraqi genocide to take place and for continuing. Isn't that a violation of the threadbare ethical percepts taught at journalism school? The BBC and its cohorts have failed humanity by simply regurgitating the official line, never calling it into account. And then the BBC's "documentary" on the "conspiracy" theories about 911 is just about the cherry on the top of this massive and unrelenting insult that masquerades as "news".
Two things should happen here:
1. Ofcom needs to be retained to look into this news broadcast for truth and impartiality and/or an independent investigation by a regulatory body needs to be convened - and have teeth (for a change)
2. An FOI request needs to be sent to request public disclosure of the sources of that feed (where did the teleprompt writers get their leads from?), the broadcast footage itself including the period after the feed was pulled/dropped; along with all email correspondence for the whole of the day of 911 and for two weeks later received by senior corporate executives, news writers, news readers, control room operators, and teleprompters.
3. The BBC should, under threat of having its license revoked and the public TV license fee cancelled UNLESS the BBC can offer a satisfactory account for this debacle.
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clairvoyant auntie
01.03.2007 12:43
solly
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I'm happy to see
01.03.2007 12:50
James Jones
Alternative explanation
01.03.2007 14:47
Can someone please deal with that before we get into fantasyland? No, too late.
a bit silly
My car
01.03.2007 15:31
all above board
oi! my car!
01.03.2007 18:10
a bit less silly than you
dumbo
01.03.2007 18:39
open your eyes
A "bit silly" is Really Silly
01.03.2007 20:18
It's a window! It's not a blue screen, the presenter is sat with a big window behind her and she turns to point things out behind her and the camera zooms in, also the BBC haven't tried to claim it's a blue screen.
In additon even if it was "time delayed footage" what difference would it make -- they announced the collapse 23 mins before it happened!
When those who are desperate to believe the official fantasy tale start making up things like this to ensure that they can continue to live in their illusion bubble it's rather telling... what lenghts are you going to go to next to ensure that your faith in the Imperial mass murderers running the USA isn't undermined?
lol
erm
01.03.2007 23:59
viewer
Google video on BBC power of future predictions is back on.
02.03.2007 00:10
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4859769454181174338
Puting KGB
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Red Herring
02.03.2007 01:45
Seb Patel
@ Seb Patel
02.03.2007 07:21
Scarlett O'Hara
Reply to viewer
02.03.2007 19:40
Because she clearly didn't know which building it was, how many people would have recognised it on the day?
People only know it from any angle now because they have seen so many vids and stills of it because it's such an unexplained mystery...
reviewer
A real Cock Up on London and New York
03.03.2007 10:24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28pceQai32M
Fuck Bush
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No more Stonewalling from the BBC re WTC 7
08.03.2007 20:31
So Mr. Richard Porter of the BBC wants the whole 'BBC Reported Building 7 Collapse 20 Minutes Before It Fell' scandal (and believe me, it IS a scandal even if you don't see it on the evening news) to just go away. The BBC is under the impression that knocking down a couple of straw-men and proclaiming 'nothing to see here folks' is going make us all just forget the monumental 'cock up' which is the BBCs attempt at damage control. The BBC is also under the impression that it is only a few 'lone nuts' out there hammering the YouTube and Google Video counts and that this story is going to lose all it's steam by next week.
Well Mr. Richard Porter. This is where you are so very wrong...
We the Undersigned formally demand the following information from the BBC.
1. Who was the source who told your station that the Salomon Building had collapsed?
2. Who from the BBC ordered YouTube and GoogleVideo to immediately start pulling the videos from their sites the day this story broke?
3. Who from the BBC ordered Archive.Org to block and then remove their copies of the footage which (until this story broke) were freely available online?
4. Who is responsible for and what were the circumstances surrounding the 'cock-up' which led to the loss of BBC World News' 9/11 footage?
5. Who cut reporter Jane Standley's live feed from NYC at 5:18pm (EST) on 11/09/01?
Until you answer these 5 questions IN FULL, you can expect the BBC's phones to be ringing daily with people asking these 5 questions over and over until they are answered.
Take a good look at the number of signatures here Mr Porter. These are the people who are demanding these answers and these are the people who WON'T go away.
Welcome to the Digital Age Mr. Richard Porter. You're either a news outlet or a supermarket tabloid. Which is it?
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
The Undersigned
Homepage: http://www.petitiononline.com/wtc7bbc/petition.html
simple truth
27.03.2007 07:11
fact
Link between WTC7 Demolition Preview Scandal and BBC Correspondent Abduction
10.04.2007 08:32
http://exodus.exblog.jp/5474652/
The reason why the Call for Lifesaving Petition of the BBC Gaza correspondent is abruptly closed
exod-US
e-mail: babalabo@kta.bigllobe.ne.jp
Homepage: http://exodus.exblog.jp
Link between WTC7 Demolition Preview Scandal and BBC Correspondent Abduction
10.04.2007 08:59
http://exodus.exblog.jp/5474652/
The reason why the Call for Lifesaving Petition of the BBC Gaza correspondent is abruptly closed
exod-US
e-mail: babalabo@kta.bigllobe.ne.jp
Homepage: http://exodus.exblog.jp