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 Road to Armageddon

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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."

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The Copenhagen Plot

The Copenhagen Plot
Is the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference a front for the next phase of world domination by a supra-national elite of bankers and their political lap-dogs? Is Copenhagen launch pad for a World Government which will extort money from the entire human race in the form of “carbon taxes”? These concerns are addressed in tonight’s edition [...]

Is the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference a front for the next phase of world domination by a supra-national elite of bankers and their political lap-dogs? Is Copenhagen launch pad for a World Government which will extort money from the entire human race in the form of “carbon taxes”? These concerns are addressed in tonight’s edition of TNRA.

Also in tonight’s show, we look at the mounting evidence that the Federal Labor and Liberal parties are merely branches of the same organisation.

In the second half we bring you a review of Alex Jones’ latest production - “Fall of the Republic“, and we look at the disturbing prediction by U.S. Senator Ron Paul that the current economic “green shoots” will soon give way to a much deeper and darker recession, mirroring the pattern of the Great Depression.

A great show!

More Links:

• Beware the UN’s Copenhagen plot
• Another Blow to Junk Science… Polar Bear Populations Booming
• Polar bear expert barred by global warmists
• Massive involvement in drug trade by occupiers : Afghan minister
• Alex Jones - Fall of the Republic - HQ full length
  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddQvhdCyhe4

Source: www.truthnews.com.au

Chemtrails Explained!

Chemtrails Explained!
In part 2 of tonight’s show John Bursill returns to grapple with the mysteries of chemtrails (or “persistent contrails” as they are sometimes called) . For those new to the subject, here is a quick introduction from wikipedia: The chemtrail conspiracy theory holds that some contrails are actually chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high [...]

In part 2 of tonight’s show John Bursill returns to grapple with the mysteries of chemtrails (or “persistent contrails” as they are sometimes called) . For those new to the subject, here is a quick introduction from wikipedia:

The chemtrail conspiracy theory holds that some contrails are actually chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes for a purpose undisclosed to the general public. Versions of the chemtrail conspiracy theory circulating on the internet and radio talk shows theorize that the activity is directed by government officials. As a result, federal agencies have received thousands of complaints from people who have demanded an explanation. The existence of chemtrails has been repeatedly refuted by government agencies and scientists around the world.

The United States Air Force has stated that the theory is a hoax which “has been investigated and refuted by many established and accredited universities, scientific organizations, and major media publications”. The British Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has stated that chemtrails “are not scientifically recognised phenomena”. The Canadian Government House Leader has stated that “The term ‘chemtrails’ is a popularized expression, and there is no scientific evidence to support their existence.”

The term chemtrail is derived from “chemical trail” in the similar fashion that contrail is an abbreviation for condensation trail. It does not refer to common forms of aerial spraying such as crop dusting, cloud seeding or aerial firefighting. The term specifically refers to aerial trails allegedly caused by the systematic high-altitude release of chemical substances not found in ordinary contrails, resulting in the appearance of supposedly uncharacteristic sky tracks. Believers of this theory speculate that the purpose of the chemical release may be for global dimming, population control, weather control, or biowarfare and claim that these trails are causing respiratory illnesses and other health problems.

In the first half of the show we cover a number of major breaking stories in Australia and overseas.

Links for tonight’s show:

(thanks to Craig Stanford for the chemtrails links)

• Dennis Kucinich (one of the only remaining good people in the US congress) has introduced a bill into the house naming Chemtrails as “exotic weapons”
• German Military Admits Chemtrailing for “Weather Modification”
• U.S. Government Mad Scientists Geo-Engineer Atmosphere
• The Government’s Top-Secret Efforts To Control Mother Nature
• WWII Contrails

Stories from Part 1:

• Half of GPs refuse swine flu vaccine over testing fears
• H1N1 vaccines plan will go ahead: PM
• CIA hired Blackwater for al-Qaida assassination programme

Apologies for the poor audio in this episode - something went wrong with my microphone!

Source: www.truthnews.com.au

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