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9/11 See other 9/11 Articles Title: Coleen Rowley: ABC News Reporter Does a Hatchet Job In a sad commentary on the currently disintegrating state of "main stream media", I found myself ambushed on Saturday, March 6th, just ten minutes after I arrived at a conference outside Philadelphia on "9-11, the Wars and Our Broken Constitution". When young, smiling female producer Katie Hinman identified herself as being with ABC and asked for an interview, I had only just arrived at the conference. So although I was a little surprised that the Nightline TV crew was there, I immediately consented to an interview before anyone had a chance to warn me that the TV show was trying to concoct a connection between the conference and the mentally ill young man who had been killed a few days before while shooting at Pentagon guards. From the very first question Mr. Bury launched, it was clear, however, that he was not interested in the truth, and that I would not fare any better than someone who consents to go on Bill O'Reilly's or Glenn Beck's show. Journalistic ethics In the interest of journalistic ethics, let me list a few of the departures from how a decent, ethical, objective journalist would have covered the story of this conference: 1) Chris Bury and his news crew left right after interviewing me. They apparently only spent a couple hours at the conference that morning (before I arrived) and did not interview any of the sick 9-11 rescue workers or 9-11 victim family members. It turns out that while castigating the victims' quest for more facts about 9-11, they had refused to interview these folks! 2) Bury did not let me answer any of his questions, but repeatedly cut me off after I got only a couple words out. He asked totally leading questions using loaded terms with pejorative connotations like "conspiracy" in connection with the search for facts and evidence. Within a couple minutes, it was clear that Nightline's Chris Bury was only interested in furthering his pre-determined agenda and conducting a hit type interrogation just as Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and other radio-TV talk shows are fond of doing. 3) Of course Chris Bury and his Nightline crew did not stay to hear my presentation on the terrible consequences of the lack of 9-11 truth -- the series of post 9-11 mistakes -- nor did they stay to hear any of the other speakers. It's been said that "truth is the first casualty of war" and there were many other visual displays and speakers, like myself, who made that point about why the truth matters. In fact when I tried to counter Bury's disparaging line of questioning, by asking why and how it came to be when Bush-Cheney launched their preemptive invasion of Iraq, that 70% of Americans mistakenly believed that Saddam was behind 9-11, Bury did not answer. Nightline edited out my questions of course about this massive deception as well as the rest of my interview in what they chose to air. 4) The Nightline crew appeared so intent on vilification but it missed my presentation on "Truth--the Dribs and Drabs" as well as other speakers' presentations on questions about inconsistencies in the NORAD time lime, the level of pre 9-11 intelligence that existed, and the actual motivations of the 9-11 hijackers (that involve the illegal Israeli settlements and Israel's handling of Palestinians instead of Bush's glib answer "they hate our freedoms"). 5) If Chris Bury and his ABC producer had attended the full two days of this conference, they would have failed to find one single call for violence in any of the presentations. They would have found just the opposite. Of course that would have conflicted with Nightline's sensationalist angle, stretching to connect the young troubled Pentagon shooter to calls for further investigation of 9-11. Their outrageous proposition was that anyone who asks questions about the momentously tragic event is dangerous. What Would Gandhi Do? For many years, I've had this little magnet on my refrigerator with a picture of Mahatma Gandhi which says "Truth is the highest God." What that means to me is that although it's impossible to fully know the truth (as it is to know "God"), truth is a very worthy pursuit! So maybe it wouldn't do much good but we ought to send some of these refrigerator magnets to Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and all those sensationalist Gonzo journalists like Chris Bury to remind them not to forsake their own integrity and their 4th estate responsibilities. The truth really does matter.
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I can't say enough how important it was for the attendees to have filmed Bury as he was interviewing Rowley and others. There was one conference attendee I recall who was asked what he does for a living. His answer was that he played music at his local church and that he was a scientist. In the private interview, he went on to explain he was self taught and uncredentialed, but in the Nightline segment, they cut away before his full answer was heard, leaving the national audience with the conclusion he was KooK. Meanwhile, Richard Gage, Rowley, and other presenters with credentials, were completely ignored by ABC.
The MSM is going bankrupt because of this, and the fact that the internet is showing people how they operate. So, imo it doesn't matter what they do. I say let them keep shooting themselves in the foot. They just can't get it thru their thick skulls that they are always loosing people, and we are always gaining people. Once they are with us, they never go back.
Couldn't agree more. The 'net has effectively put the newspaper industry out of business. Similarly, the national news delivered to us from the Big Three has an audience made up of Washington police wonks and people w/o computers for the most part. The dangerous question for US is will the government continue to allow this, or will they pull the plug.
Pulling the plug would be the dumbest thing they could possible do, IMO. It ranks right up there with weapons confiscations. It's suicidal. That's how I see it. They are losing, and will lose IMO, and there is nothing they can do to stop it. But that also makes them dangerous. I say lets get it over with already. I'm not getting any younger here.
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