FAIR Action Alert: NY Times Parrots Giuliani's 9/11 Defense

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http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3137

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In fact, the New York Times has previously reported that the National Institute of Standards and Technology investigation found that the boosters were not the problem, writing (4/4/05) that the NIST "report also found that the World Trade Center's high rise communication repeater was working properly, a finding that contradicts claims by some rescue workers."

So who are the "most experts" who dispute the conclusions of the three leading investigations into 9/11? Times readers don't know because Santora didn't tell them. When FAIR asked Wayne Barrett about Santora's claim about the repeaters, he said the New York Times reporter was "simply adopting an old Giuliani line."

The only other example for Santora's claim that the video was "factually questionable" was his assertion that the video "implies" that Giuliani was "more concerned about securing some $200 million in gold stored in a basement vault at the World Trade Center than in recovering the remains of the dead." Santora called this "an accusation widely dismissed by people who closely monitored the cleanup." The question of what Giuliani was "more concerned about" would seem to be a matter of opinion, not fact, but the factual observations made in the video about the timing of the scale-back of search efforts in relation to the recovery of the gold are accurate.

It is very unusual for the New York Times to introduce a political statement like the firefighters' video by labeling it "factually questionable"; the paper could actually do a great deal more to investigate and when necessary rebut political claims. But when political arguments are dismissed with dubious references to the opinions of unnamed "experts" and "people," the Times appears less interested in keeping the political debate honest than in doing damage control for a favored politician.

ACTION: Contact the New York Times and ask it to substantiate or retract its assertion that the International Association of Fire Fighters' criticisms of Giuliani are "factually questionable."

CONTACT:
New York Times
Public Editor
Clark Hoyt
[phone]
[email protected]

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1. the NYT is an official mouthpiece

of the Official Conspiracy Theory. they have a nice little cottage industry of books about 9/11/01 published under NYT Press, that all belabor, with remarkably similar language, the same Official Lies disguised as "science" about how the buildings fell and why. no surprises here seeing them bash The Bravest who dare to be truth tellers.

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