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.

The ethnic cleansing of Palestine exposed

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Tonight TNRA welcomes Michael Shaik, spokesman for Australians for Palestine.

As detailed in their mission statement, Australians for Palestine is committed to dispelling the myths and disinformation about Palestine in Australia. “It seeks to communicate the Palestinian narrative from a historical perspective, as well as through the current political developments impacting on Palestinians wherever they are, the Middle East region, and the world at large.”

Michael is an Australian who worked as a media coordinator in Gaza for the International Solidarity Movement.  In 2003 he was jailed and deported for “unspecified security reasons”.

During the interview we examine several facets of the problem of Israeli and Palestininan relations.

We look at the historical origins of the Jewish state, the failures of the recent United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, the Mossad passport controversy and double standards exhibited by our media and government in relation to documented crimes against humanity perpetrated by the State of Israel, such as the use of white phosphorous shells during the 2009 incursion into Gaza.

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Is downloading of copyrighted content theft? Should we reform the concepts of digital and intellectual property? Do new technologies like BitTorrent really require new criminal statutes or should record companies change their business models? Is the criminalisation of file sharing really just protecting the interests of mega corporations?

Tonight we welcome to the show David Crafti, President of the Pirate Party of Australia to discuss these and more questions.

What is the Pirate Party all about? From the pp website:

Real property is something that you can touch. In simple terms, if one person possesses it, another person cannot possess it at the same time. Intellectual property is information. If a person makes a copy of a song, the person who owns the original is not deprived of the song.

The Pirate Party is dedicated to protecting civil liberties with an emphasis on reform of copyright law, freedom of speech and protection of privacy. Other policy areas include opposition to internet censorship, support for an R18+ rating for games and providing parents with software tools to manage access to the internet.

The Australian Pirate Party has affiliations with movements around the world which are rapidly gaining in popularity.

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Tonight Ashtweth Palise returns to the show with the latest news from the Open Source Free Energy movement. Ashtweth runs two websites which we commend to our listeners: panaceauniversity.org panacea-bocaf.org What is “Free Energy”? This is a highly controversial term, even amongst those who believe it is possible to extract large and useful amounts of energy by unconventional means. The [...]

Tonight Ashtweth Palise returns to the show with the latest news from the Open Source Free Energy movement.

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• panaceauniversity.org
  
• panacea-bocaf.org

What is “Free Energy”?

This is a highly controversial term, even amongst those who believe it is possible to extract large and useful amounts of energy by unconventional means. The word Free could imply there is no cost and is somehow magical. That is not correct, perhaps cheap is a better term; and the well-documented science behind many of them certainly is not magic. These devices will of course cost money, and there will be significant limitations to their efficiency and effectiveness; especially until they are developed further.

Free also pertains to the fact that they are all pollution free, using no external chemical fuels and often requiring much less electricity to operate than they output (or least being much more efficient than traditional means). But perhaps the most accurate use of the word Free would relate to the change in society that these inventions would bring: Freedom from the electrical grid and filling stations Freedom from an economy built on scarcity. And freedom from the need to pollute our planet to maintain a high level of civilization.
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For an introduction to the core ideas behind the various technologies discussed in the show I recommend the documentary It runs on water which was aired on British television in 1995.

In the second half of tonight’s show we examine the explosive  implications of statements made recently by the U.S. Vice President Jo Biden to the effect that  Israel has a  “sovereign right” to attack Iran. These statements were made in an interview with George Stephanopoulos aired on ABC television (U.S) on 5 July.

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George Stephanopoulos’ interview with V.P. Joe Biden in Iraq - Jul 05, 2009

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Tonight we lead with the OzCar scandal which has been dominating the news in Australia for the past week.

At the risk of exhausting our listenrers’ patience I attempt to break down and analyse the entire debacle, which is very complicated indeed.

Not surprisingly, the conclusions we reach in the show diverge somewhat from mainstream media commentary.

In the second half, Josh gives us a review of the sci-fi fantasy film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. We aim to make film reviews a regular part of the show from here on in, so, if you like movies, please keep an eye on TNRA.

Other issues covered in the show include the “phone in a bikie” campaign launched in W.A., and the ongiong controversy over tasers after the revelation that a man in QLD was tased by police 28 times before dying of a heart attack.

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