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Book: Flat Earth News; Interesting paragraph
Topic Started: Feb 23 2008, 05:12 AM (546 Views)
seabhcan

I'd like to draw attention to an excellent book on the media I just read and an interesting throw away comment on 9/11 made by the author. The author - Nick Davies - is a former UK Guardian reporter who decided to publish an expose on the UK media itself. He commissioned a research team at Cardiff University to trace back the origin and sources of 'hard' news stories published in the up market UK press.

What the found was 88% of news published in the UK is the product of PR firms.

Of the remaining 12%, most was tainted by unattributed government sources. He managed to speak with a number of professional government PR people in the UK's MI6 and GCHQ. They discuss many topics (mainly the lack of Iraqi WMD and the invention of Zarqawi), and the focus of the book is not conspiracy theories or 9/11, but he does add the following:

"page 248
 

I spoke to senior British sources who said they believed that the discovery of Mohammed Atta's passport in the rubble of the Twin Towers in September 2001 had been 'a throwdown', i.e. it was placed there by somebody official. Similarily, they said, they did not believe that Atta's will, which had allegedly been found in a suitcase which had accidentally failed to make it to his plane, was anything other than misinformation.


I believe that the author was indeed told this by MI5/6 officers. And I know there is no great new information here for us, but I think it is very interesting that security people in the UK are now saying such things openly to the press. They cannot believe that Atta's passport was planted without believing the whole of 9/11 is a fiction. Equally, if they (Mi6) were themselves involved in faking 9/11, then they wouldn't be taking to journalists about it.

Also, the above quote might be useful for someone writing their own 9/11 material or making a film.
Edited by seabhcan, Feb 23 2008, 05:14 AM.
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Nice find. Thanks for sharing.
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