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media concentration is the Number one enemy
How Did those WTC Buildings Collapse?
by Scott Loughrey
The Washington Post recently (and casually) reported (1/3/03) that the ownership of our nation’s media and entertainment industries is becoming more even more consolidated than they are today. FCC Chairman Michael Powell is determined to relax the restrictions which control how much investment in media and information immense corporations like AOL-Time-Warner can make within individual markets. It has long been the opinion of this writer that media concentration is the Number One problem facing this country. People who dispute this idea always point out that the Internet is a source of information for those who (rightly) avoid the mainstream. However, the Bush right-wing faction (as opposed to the right wing faction that deplores government interference with liberties) is planning an attack on the freedom many of us associate with the “information superhighway” as you read these words.
With a more concentrated media comes the prospect that serious lines of inquiry will not be pursued in a timely fashion to correct problems. For example, what really happened on 9/11/01?
What follows is a cursory examination of some of the many issues that a growing number of people have with what we’ve been told happened that day. These conversations are taking place on the Internet exclusively because neither the mainstream nor the established left media are giving these ideas much attention. In the case of the latter, the failure of left-stalwarts such as Z Magazine (to name one) to discuss these matters is attracting hard criticism (link) from well-respected intellectuals.
Let’s start with the World Trade Center (WTC) twin towers. How did they collapse? The explanation so far (link) is that the temperature from the burning jet fuel of the two planes was sufficient to weaken the steel trusses supporting both buildings. This made their collapsing “inevitable.”
