On The Media

Your show is a step in the right direction: finding the truth about the 9/11 attacks. However, I found it a bit slanted toward the safe (official) conclusion. You repeated the term "conspiracy" several times, implying foolishness, rather than using more objective references to the planning of the attacks. You made a point of "9/11 Truthers" (another negative connotation, as if skeptics were conspirators) taking out of context an eyewitness impression of an exploding tower. Though the witness quoted subsequently disavowed any belief in controlled demolition, her immediate impression cannot be dismissed when combined with similar impressions from others and studied testimony of demolition experts. (And have you producers pondered the videos comparing 9/11 views with those of earlier controlled demolitions? Have you read recent studies of tell-tale nano-thermite in 9/11 dust?)

I have read D R Griffin's "Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11" as well as many other analyses of 9/11 events, and feel that you may have selected this title because it suggests a link with fundamentalist Christian profession. I know David Griffin and two of his colleagues at Claremont Graduate School of Theology, and there could be no one farther from the thinking of science-scorning fundamentalists. Griffin has written extensively and recently more conclusively on 9/11, but you chose this older title to feature---Why?

NYCCAN has gathered 80,000 signatures to put on the November NYC ballot a request to undertake an impartial investigation of 9/11. I hope that you do not use our public radio medium to belittle or help quash this citizen effort.

David W. Lewit, PhD

Boston MA

617-266-8687

I wonder what Mr. Prince thought about the films, the smart-aleck gonzo satire "War, Inc" and the poignant drama "Grace is Gone", both starred and were produced by John Cusack, which take a look at America's military response to the attacks. Both films are well made.

Also is the recent comic book adaptation, "Watchmen", which, though an alternative take on the Cold War in the 1980s, involving costumed crimefighters, there are haunting parallels. The Towers are present in the film.

I love your show but was mystiifed today. OTM is based on the lies politicians, corporations, the military. et al, tell us through their cypher, the media. On 9/11 theories, bogus or not you don't get to dismiss them because the government says there is no basis. Right? Architects and Engineers for Truth about 9/11, are questioning the NIST report, and are signing on to a request for further inquiry. Did you know this?

Then you proceed to interview a pentagon spokesman about how have they have allowed coverage of the wars for eight years. No counter to this from your interviewer. You and I know "embedding" was their way of controlling what was said about Iraq. As reporter, Nancy Youssef, recently said on Bill Moyers, as horrible as the image was of a young soldier dying in battle, how else do you tell America that young Americans are dying.

Finally, why has no one asked the Afghani people, Taliban or not, what they want for a future?

Throughout your segment on films I couldn't help think of a film and a TV series. The film was Love Actually and the series was Star Trek: Enterprise (where for a whole season they dealt with the aftermath of a major attack on Earth).

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Thank you for the film tip. I'm now looking up "The Siege (1998).

Reign on Me?? Adam Sandler & Don Cheadle. Best film reference to 9/11.