9/11 News Coverage: How 36 Reporters Brought Us the Twin Towers’ Explosive Demolition on 9/11
Editor’s Note: As of the publication of this
article, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth is awaiting a
decision from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
regarding the request for correction
that AE911Truth and ten family members of 9/11 victims submitted to
NIST on April 15, 2020. The request seeks corrections to eight separate
items of information in NIST’s 2008 report on the collapse of World
Trade Center Building 7, any of which would effectively force NIST to
reverse its conclusion that fires caused the building’s destruction.
NIST informed
AE911Truth on June 12, 2020, that it was unable to meet its goal of
responding within 60 days. Under the procedure governing such requests,
NIST must provide a decision within 120 days of the submission, which
would fall on August 13, 2020. If NIST elects not to take the corrective
action being sought, AE911Truth and its fellow requesters would then
have 30 days to file an appeal with NIST. Should NIST fail in any way to
comply with the procedure governing requests or should it fail to
rectify the information quality violations documented in the request,
AE911Truth and its fellow requesters are prepared to take legal action.
In the meantime, AE911Truth is taking one further step toward
correcting the record on the destruction of the Twin Towers with the
publication of this article. This exhaustive review of 70 hours of 9/11
news coverage reveals that the hypothesis of explosions bringing down
the Twin Towers was not only prevalent among reporters covering the
events in New York City on 9/11 but was, in fact, the dominant
hypothesis.
The 36 reporters who brought us the Twin Towers’ explosive demolition on 9/11 include, by network, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and Cynthia McFadden; CBS’s Harold Dow, Tom Flynn, Mika Brzezinski, and Carol Marin (appearing on WCBS); NBC’s Pat Dawson and Anne Thompson; CNN’s Aaron Brown, Rose Arce, Patty Sabga, and Alan Dodds Frank; Fox News’ David Lee Miller and Rick Leventhal; MSNBC’s Ashleigh Banfield and Rick Sanchez; CNBC’s John Bussey, Ron Insana, and Bob Pisani; WABC’s N.J. Burkett, Michelle Charlesworth, Nina Pineda, Cheryl Fiandaca, and Joe Torres; WCBS’s John Slattery, Marcella Palmer, Vince DeMentri, and Marcia Kramer; WNBC’s Walter Perez; New York 1’s Kristen Shaughnessy, Andrew Siff, John Schiumo, and Andrew Kirtzman; USA Today’s Jack Kelley; and two unidentified reporters (1 and 2)
who attended a press conference with Mayor Giuliani and Governor
Pataki. Video clips of each reporter’s statements on 9/11 can be viewed
below.
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The widely held belief that the Twin Towers collapsed as a result
of the airplane impacts and the resulting fires is, unbeknownst to most
people, a revisionist theory. Among individuals who witnessed the event
firsthand, the more prevalent hypothesis was that the Twin Towers had
been brought down by massive explosions.
This observation was first made 14 years ago in the article, “
118 Witnesses: The Firefighters’ Testimony to Explosions in the Twin Towers.”
A review of interviews conducted with 503 members of the New York Fire
Department (FDNY) in the weeks and months after 9/11 revealed that 118
of them described witnessing what they interpreted that day to be
explosions. Only 10 FDNY members were found describing the destruction
in ways supportive of the fire-induced collapse hypothesis.
The interviews of fire marshal
John Coyle and firefighter
Christopher Fenyo
explicitly support this finding. Coyle remarked in his interview, “I
thought it was exploding, actually. That’s what I thought for hours
afterwards. . . . Everybody I think at that point still thought these
things were blown up.” Similarly, Fenyo recalled in his interview, “At
that point, a debate began to rage [about whether to continue rescue
operations in the other, still-standing tower] because the perception
was that the building looked like it had been taken out with charges.”
News reporters constitute another group of individuals who witnessed
the event firsthand and whose accounts were publicly documented. While
many people have seen a smattering of news clips on the internet in
which reporters describe explosions, there has never been, as far as we
know, a systematic attempt to collect these news clips and analyze them.
We decided to take on this task for two reasons. First, we wanted to
know just how prevalent the explosion hypothesis was among reporters.
Second, anticipating that this would be the more prevalent hypothesis,
we wanted to determine exactly how it was supplanted by the hypothesis
of fire-induced collapse.
In this article, we present our findings related to the first
question. In a subsequent article, we will examine how the hypothesis of
fire-induced collapse so quickly supplanted the originally dominant
explosion hypothesis.
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