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 fight for freedom continues…

The fight for freedom continues…
Tonight I am joined by Josh Jackson and John Bursill to discuss a number of issues of the day, leading with the landmark decision by an Australian Federal Court against the Australian film and television industry which was trying to make ISPs liable for the downloading habits of their customers. “You can breach copyright in two [...]

Tonight I am joined by Josh Jackson and John Bursill to discuss a number of issues of the day, leading with the landmark decision by an Australian Federal Court against the Australian film and television industry which was trying to make ISPs liable for the downloading habits of their customers.

“You can breach copyright in two ways. One is by directly breaching it, which the users did; and secondly you can authorise a breach of copyright, which you can sometimes do by putting people in a position where they can breach copyright,” Mr Lambrick said.

“Now what Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) had argued was that by providing its internet service, iiNet was putting its account holders in a position whereby they could breach copyright directly themselves.

“Justice Cowdroy found it wasn’t the ISP’s system that was responsible for the breach of copyright. It was actually the BitTorrent system which was the means by which copyright was breached.”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/04/2810520.htm

Other topics in focus on tonight’s show include the latest develoments in the 9/11 truth movement and the quest to create a broad based anti-war / truth & justice movement to oppose the ongoing military agression and erosion of civil liberties seen across many countries.

A great show and an excellent discussion - not to be missed!

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• Gagging order on David Kelly records could be lifted
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Source: www.truthnews.com.au

TV Media Info Wars Strikes At Valley Forge ‘9/11 Truth’ Conference Nate Graham on Mar 9th

TV Media Info Wars Strikes At Valley Forge ‘9/11 Truth’ Conference Nate Graham on Mar 9th

911 truthers in Madrid

911 truthers in Madrid

The Road to Armageddon

The Road to Armageddon
February 25, 2010By Paul Craig Roberts opednews.com The Washington Times is a newspaper that looks with favor upon the Bush/Cheney/Obama/neocon wars of aggression in the Middle East and favors making terrorists pay for 9/11. Therefore, I was surprised to learn on February 24 that the most popular story on the paper’s website for the past three days was the "Inside the Beltway" report, "Explosive News," about the 31 press conferences in cities in the US and abroad on February 19 held by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, an organization of professionals which now has 1,000 members. I was even more surprised that the news report treated the press conference seriously.How did three World Trade Center skyscrapers suddenly disintegrate into fine dust? How did massive steel beams in three skyscrapers suddenly fail as a result of short-lived, isolated, and low temperature fires? "A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7," reports the Washington Times. The paper reports that the architects and engineers have concluded that the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Institute of Standards and Technology provided "insufficient, contradictory and fraudulent accounts of the circumstances of the towers’ destruction" and are "calling for a grand jury investigation of NIST officials." The newspaper reports that Richard Gage, the spokesperson for the architects and engineers said: "Government officials will be notified that "Misprision of Treason,’ U.S. Code 18 (Sec. 2382) is a serious federal offense, which requires those with evidence of treason to act. The implications are enormous and may have profound impact on the forthcoming Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial."

The ethnic cleansing of Palestine exposed

The ethnic cleansing of Palestine exposed
A Palestinian family stands in the remains of their house, demolished by the Israeli authorities in the Beit Hanina neighborhood, 13 July 2009. More images here. 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 [...]

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.

A very important show - don’t miss it!

Related Links:

• One Palestinian family’s encounter with Israel’s bulldozers in East Jerusalem
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• The ‘explosive admission’ in Israel’s Gaza report
• Rachel Corrie’s family bring civil suit over human shield’s death in Gaza
• Mossad ‘factory’ churned out fake Australian passports
• Zionism in the Age of the Dictators by Lenni Brenner (full text)
• 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis (CounterPunch article)
• A Review by William Hughes of Lenni Brenner’s book, “51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis” by William Hughes

Source: www.truthnews.com.au

Pre-production Pricing - 9/11 Fact Sheets, Deception Dollars - ORDER DEADLINE 2/26!

Pre-production Pricing - 9/11 Fact Sheets, Deception Dollars - ORDER DEADLINE 2/26!
February 23, 2010 Carol Brouillet has once again graciously taken on the arduous task of organizing the production and printing of updated outreach materials for us, in the form of Deception Dollars, and fact sheets. Please note that the deadline for 9/11 Fact Sheets only is THIS FRIDAY, 2/26/10, expected to ship 3/8/10. If you are interested in stocking up on outreach materials at very low pre-order pricing, please read on. (follow link to see back, also) These fact sheets have now been updated to include information about nanothermite.

Ruling: No Court Can Hear Abuse and Wrongful Death Claims from Guantanamo

Ruling: No Court Can Hear Abuse and Wrongful Death Claims from Guantanamo
February 17, 2010 Center for Constitutional Justice New York — Yesterday evening, the district court in Washington, D.C. ruled against two men who died in Guantanamo in June 2006 and their families in a case seeking to hold federal officials and the United States responsible for the men’s torture, arbitrary detention and ultimate deaths at Guantaacute;namo. Following a two-year investigation, the military concluded that the men had committed suicide. Recent first-hand accounts by four soldiers stationed at the base at the time of the deaths, however, raise serious questions about the cause and circumstances of the deaths, including the possibility that the men died as the result of torture. In dismissing the case, the district court ruled that the deceased’s constitutional claims that it was a violation of due process and cruel treatment to detain them for four years without charge while subjecting them to inhumane and degrading conditions of confinement and violent acts of torture and abuse, could not be heard in federal court. The men were held on the basis of an enemy combatant finding by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal later found by the Supreme Court itself to be inadequate. SEE ALSO, at CCR: [Ed. Note: Because a representative of the Simon Wiesenthal Center gave testimony in 2007 to Congressional committee that we (9/11 truth advocates) are essentially 'jihadists', and that we and our websites call for violence, which is an outrageous falsehood, (see stories here, here and here), this story is particularly noteworthy to our readers. ...] Erasing the Past: The Destruction of an Ancient Muslim Cemetery in Jerusalem

Hold the AE911Truth Press Conference in Your City: Feb 19

Hold the AE911Truth Press Conference in Your City: Feb 19

Action Alert: Updates to AE911Truth Press Conference on Feb 19

Action Alert: Updates to AE911Truth Press Conference on Feb 19

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