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HOW THE CORPORATE CONTROLLED PRESS AVOIDS THE TRUTH OF 9-11
By Christopher Bollyn
http://reopen911.org/schaumburg.htm
American Free Press
Rather than face the uncomfortable facts presented by William Rodriguez, a
key eyewitness and survivor of 9/11, the controlled press simply avoids him
because his testimony exposes the lies of the official version.
SCHAUMBURG, Illinois – In amazement and awe, audiences hang on every word of
William Rodriguez when he speaks about his experiences of 9-11. The
compelling testimony of the former custodian of the World Trade Center, in
which he clearly describes a huge explosion occurring in the basement of the
North Tower seconds before the plane struck the building, demolishes the
government version of events as completely as the explosions that pulverized
the twin towers.
The 40-minute testimony of William Rodriguez, a national hero, presents
listeners with an inescapable dilemma. Either Rodriguez is making it all up
or the official explanation of what caused the destruction of the 110-story
steel and concrete towers is a pack of lies.
Because the corporate-controlled press cannot square the Puerto Rican
janitor's testimony with the official version, they simply have to avoid him
entirely.
To pursue the truth in a public forum is why American Free Press invited
Rodriguez to participate in its 9-11 Symposium in Schaumburg, a suburb of
Chicago, home of the world's first steel-girder construction skyscraper.
Dr. Gene Corley, structural engineer and team leader of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) report on the destruction of the WTC, was
invited well in advance to participate in the symposium and defend the
fire-induced gravity collapse theory. Corley, however, chose not to.
As team leader of the official engineering study, about the damaged towers
Corley wrote: "…absent other severe loading events such as a windstorm or
earthquake, the buildings could have remained standing in their damaged
states until subjected to some significant additional load.
"The large quantity of jet fuel carried by each aircraft ignited upon impact
into each building. A significant portion of this fuel was consumed
immediately in the ensuing fireballs. The remaining fuel is believed either
to have flowed down through the buildings or to have burned off within a few
minutes of the aircraft impact. The heat produced by this burning jet fuel
does not by itself appear to have been sufficient to initiate the structural
collapses," Corley wrote in the executive summary of the World Trade Center
Building Performance Study.
According to Corley, neither the impact of the planes nor the burning fuel
caused the towers to collapse.
"Over a period of many minutes," Corley wrote, secondary fires, such as
burning office supplies and furniture set alight by the burning fuel,
"induced additional stresses into the damaged structural frames while
simultaneously softening and weakening these frames.
"This additional loading and the resulting damage were sufficient to induce
the collapse of both structures," the FEMA-sponsored study concluded.
Corley, a senior vice president with Construction Technology Laboratories in
Skokie, has his office 20 miles from the Schaumburg library where the 9-11
Symposium was held on Sunday, August 21. Corley told AFP that he is quite
willing to discuss the findings of the official report, but during the
entire month prior to the event he failed to respond to several written
invitations.
AFP finally called Corley's office two days before the event and was told he
would be in Memphis. Corley played a key role in authoring similar technical
reports about the Pentagon, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma City, and the Branch Davidian compound disaster in Waco, Texas.
In addition to Rodriguez and Corley, three other researchers were invited to
participate in the symposium.
Dave vonKleist, host of The Power Hour radio show and producer of the video
In Plane Site, traveled from Versailles, Missouri. Phil Jayhan, author of
the letsroll911.org website, came from McHenry, Illinois, and Eric Hufschmid,
the California-based author of Painful Questions: An Analysis of the Sept.
11 Attack, donated books, videos, and funds to make the event possible.
Although the news departments of every major media network in the Chicago
area were informed well in advance of the event, the only news outlet to
attend was the Spanish-language Univision television channel, which
interviewed Rodriguez for the nightly news.
Thus, while Rodriguez, a national hero who has been honored at the White
House five times, delivered his testimony to a spellbound audience of some
170 individuals, not a single reporter from the English-language media or
the Chicago Tribune bothered to attend.
The suburban Daily Herald told AFP that they "lacked the resources to cover
the event," and featured a front-page story about adults playing dodge-ball
the following Monday morning.
Peter Hernon, chief of the Chicago Tribune's Schaumburg office told AFP that
he was unaware of the event although his bureau had received numerous
notices by post, fax, email and phone. The Tribune, whose bureau is only two
miles from the library, had even published an announcement of the symposium
the Friday before the event.
Likewise, Richard Wronski, news desk editor on the day of the event, said he
had not heard of the event. Hernon and Wronski appear to have been less than
completely honest because a fellow editor at the Schaumburg office told AFP
two days before the symposium that while the paper was well aware of the
event, it had decided not to cover it.
Puzzled by these responses, AFP asked N. Don Wycliff, Public Editor at the
Tribune, how the decision was made not to cover what was probably the most
significant 9-11 event ever held in the Chicago area.
The Tribune Company is one of America's largest media networks owning print,
television and radio outlets in the nation's three largest markets of New
York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
AFP told Wycliff about how Rodriguez had returned to the burning tower
several times and led firefighters up the stairwells opening the locked
fire-doors with his master key allowing many trapped workers to escape.
Wycliff then asked what Rodriguez had to say that might add to the public
understanding of what happened on 9-11.
Told of the tremendous explosion that Rodriguez and others felt in the
basement of the North Tower at 8:46 a.m., before the plane hit the building,
Wycliff said, "The fact that 3 or 4 years later this guy comes out with
these revelations doesn't strike me as news."
It is a fact, however, that Rodriguez has been saying the same thing since
he was pulled from under a fire truck buried under the rubble of the North
Tower. His testimony to the official 9-11 commission, however, was not
included in the final report.
"I would have made the same decision," editor Wycliff said about why the
Tribune did not cover the symposium. "I have 10 guys and fifteen stories.
This is a story I'm not going to bother to cover."
So rather than report on the visit of William Rodriguez, a 9-11 survivor and
true hero, on the day of the symposium the Chicago Tribune began a series of
lengthy articles about Oreo cookies.
It should be noted that two of the Tribune Company's corporate directors
have served as director, president or chief executive officer with Kraft
Foods, Inc., the parent corporation behind Oreo cookies.
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