Prof. Kevin Howley Notes “Changing Journalistic Attitudes” Toward 9/11 Questions

Prof. Kevin Howley Notes “Changing Journalistic Attitudes” Toward 9/11 Questions

Prof. Kevin Howley Notes “Changing Journalistic Attitudes” Toward 9/11 Questions

Original article here: http://www.depauw.edu/news/?id=24962

March 8, 2010, Greencastle, Ind. — “If the Tea Party movement is the spoiled stepchild of the American news media, then the 9/11 Truth movement is the mad woman in the attic of U.S. journalistic culture,” according to Kevin Howley, associate professor of communication at DePauw University. His Bloomington Alternative column examines a new study out of Canada which suggests that “news reports that bring up troubling questions about the official story surrounding the events of Sept. 11, 2001, are gaining traction in the international press.”

The professor notes, “Significantly, these news narratives no longer frame the 9/11 Truth movement as so much conspiracy theory. Rather, independent, commercial and public service news organizations the world over are giving serious consideration to allegations that challenge the veracity of the official story that emerged in the days and weeks following the 9/11 attacks.”

According to Dr. Howley, “One story in particular seems to have created an opening for subsequent reports that challenge the official story: the April 2009 publication of a peer-reviewed study appearing in Open Chemical Physics Journal. The journal article presents the findings of an examination of dust from the site of the World Trade Center. The dust sample revealed traces of nano-thermite, a highly explosive substance that has been linked to classified military research.” That work led to coverage by several mainstream news organizations, Howley reports.

Citing other examples, the professor writes, “For instance, in a story pegged to the anniversary of the attacks, the Sept. 11, 2009, edition of London’s Daily Mail draws on the work of Dr. David Ray Griffin whose book Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive? suggests that bin Laden died of kidney failure — in December 2001. Griffin goes on to challenge the authenticity of audio messages attributed to bin Laden since that time. Soon thereafter, Griffin — one of the leading spokespeople for the 9/11 Truth movement — was named one of ‘The Fifty People who Matter Today’ by Britain’s New Statesman. In November 2009, Griffin joined other prominent truthers on the Canadian Broadcast Corporation’s award-winning series The Fifth Estate. The report, aptly titled ‘The Unofficial Story,’ explores a number of inconsistencies in the dominant media narrative surrounding 9/11.”

The column concludes, “Changing journalistic attitudes toward the 9/11 Truth movement is a welcome and long overdue development. We also owe a debt of gratitude to international news workers who have shifted the terms of the debate away from conspiracy theory to a legitimate scientific debate worthy of public scrutiny.” Howley maintains that “news media are the lifeblood of social movements. In the absence of thorough, substantive and accurate reporting of social movements, taboo subjects and uncomfortable truths remain out of sight and out of mind.”

Read the complete text at the weekly newspaper’s Web site.

Kevin Howley is the editor of the recently published textbook, Understanding Community Media. Read the companion piece to his latest essay in this recent story.

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A selection of firefighter and rescue worker statements consistent with explosive demolition:

At that time I started walking back up towards Vesey Street. I heard three explosions, and then we heard like groaning and grinding, and tower two started to come down.
–PARAMEDIC KEVIN DARNOWSKI Date: November 9, 2001

Somewhere around the middle of the world trade center there was this orange and red flash coming out. Initially it was just one flash. Then this flash just kept popping all the way around the building and that building had started to explode. The popping sound, and with each popping sound it was initially an orange and then red flash came out of the building and then it would just go all around the building on both sides as far as could see. These popping sounds and the explosions were getting bigger, going both up and down and then all around the building.
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I looked back. You see three explosions and then the whole thing coming down.
–FIREFIGHTER FRANK CAMPAGNA  Interview Date: December 4, 2001

The next thing I know, we heard a little bit of a rumbling, and then white powder came from the first collapsed building. I thought it was an explosion initially. We got hit with the powder. We tried to run. We got hit with the powder. It took a few minutes to clear.
…
After that, I still thought it was an explosion. I thought it was some kind of thermal explosion where I’m either going to get burnt — and I had kind of ideas that it was going to be something like Hiroshima where all this heat was coming at me and we were going to get burnt — or if the heat didn’t burn me, I thought that all the parts coming out of this building, the windows, metal, all the things like that, that I might be severed in half.
–LIEUTENANT GEORGE J. DeSIMONE  Interview Date: October 22, 2001

.. for some reason I thought that when I looked in the direction of the Trade Center before it came down, before No. 2 came down, that I saw low-level flashes. In my conversation with Lieutenant Evangelista, never mentioning this to him, he questioned me and asked me if I saw low-level flashes in front of the building, and I agreed with him because I thought — at that time I didn’t know what it was. I mean, it could have been as a result of the building collapsing, things exploding, but I saw a flash flash flash and then it looked like the building came down.

Q. Was that on the lower level of the building or up where the fire was?

A. No, the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building, how when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That’s what I thought I saw. And I didn’t broach the topic to him, but he asked me. He said I don’t know if I’m crazy, but I just wanted to ask you because you were standing right next to me. He said did you see anything by the building? And I said what do you mean by see anything? He said did you see any flashes? I said, yes, well, I thought it was just me. He said no, I saw them, too.
–ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER STEPHEN GREGORY  Interview Date: October 3, 2001

Source: www.truthnews.com.au

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Source: www.truthnews.com.au

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