Originally posted by isthisreallife
Well, I won't even begin to touch upon your bias, as it is already long established in your mind that the United States conspired to create the
events of 9/11. Which unfortunately reflects your entire post as a whole, but Fine.
As for the Freedom of the Press. That had been gone long before 9/11. I would say that the JFK Assassination was the last instance of true unbiased
press. Since then the bias, the division and the sheer stupidity of our news agencies has never ceased to amaze me.
If the JFK Assassination was the last instance of an unbiased press, how do you explain the Watergate Scandal of the 70's? There are countless
examples of an unbiased press even after the JFK case. However I am more in agreement with the OP. The Press changed after 9/11 and it was immediate.
The following video was posted in another recent 9/11 thread and I had just watched it today. A quick rundown of this video and why I feel it is
relevant to this discussion: The video is all about news reporters and witnesses to the event. Each witness talks about explosions. Explosions on
lower levels, explosions here explosions there. It shows reporters on the scene talking about explosions they heard, reports of explosions, and it
goes on and on and on. There is no debate on this issue, it is simply what was reported at that time, on that day. Then the video ends with the press
conference held by Mayor Rudy Giuliani in which he was asked about these explosions and his response was that there were no secondary explosions that
he was aware of and that any "explosion" was actually caused by the impact of the planes. No follow up question, no one pointed out the entire days
worth of reports to the contrary... the answer was simply accepted as fact regardless of the mountains of evidence that suggested otherwise.
So yes on 9/11 there was still real reporting going on, by 9/12 there was no longer "reporting" instead the media was "repeating"
