[BNM] [OT] Conspiracy solved
Josh Russell
joshbnm at gmail.com
Wed May 17 12:08:45 BST 2006
looking back at this, we were mostly concerned with the ability for
the internet to provide us with news during the event...
http://brightonnewmedia.org/pipermail/bnmlist/2001-September/date.html
funny that was our first thought, "i hope the internet still works!" :)
josh
On 5/17/06, joe aliferis <joe at newforms.co.uk> wrote:
> i heard that report too
>
> I think it was shot down - simply because the crash site is spread over
> a couple of miles - not plane coming down in the way it is supposed to
> would have its parts spread over such a large area - crash history shows
> that clearly.
>
> On the other hand, a plane hit by an air to air missle would break apart
> in the air and come down over a large area
>
> joe
>
>
> james wrote:
>
> >If they were trying to counter any conspiracy theories I'm not sure why they
> >bothered as you can't see the plane at all!
> >
> >I was at work when the events of 911 unfolded. It was a new media company so
> >everyone had fast Internet access on their PCs obviously and knew lots of
> >different news sources to look at. We had a big telly on too. We were
> >calling out details to each other as things happened and we found bits of
> >news (there was about 10 of us in the office). I distinctly remember a
> >colleague Dave who sat opposite calling out to us all, "Oh my God, this
> >report says that US military have had to shoot down another hijacked plane
> >somewhere over Pennsylvania." A couple of people jumped up and read the same
> >news report, I didn't.
> >
> >I never heard that news again ... I guess it never happened.
> >
> >Jim.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Tom Coady" <tom.coady at gmail.com>
> >To: "Brighton New Media" <bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org>
> >Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:40 AM
> >Subject: [BNM] [OT] Conspiracy solved
> >
> >
> >Glad it's all been cleared up now.
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4988022.stm
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4987716.stm
> >I specially like the handy real video made by Aunty.
> >Party line carefully shrouded in faux impartiality, eg
> >concluding with Gov case that disproves the paranoid.
> >
> >
> >
>
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