Good Media: Brian Lehrer WNYC takes on 9/11 Truthers

[BigAl]

This is WNYC, NYC's main public radio station. and the host, Brian Leher has a great fact-and-issue based show. On 9/11/2007 he had a program that discussed aspects of 9/11. He takes about 10 minutes to acknowledge that Twoofers bring up 9/11 on his blog (and occasionally one leaks into his call-in but gets no time) and he has a nice phone interview with Glenn Corbett, professor of fire science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice,

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2007/09/14

The conspiracy stuff starts about 5 minutes in.

Follow-Up Friday: Why Commemorate 9/11?

We ask our listeners to call in and tell us how or if they mark the 9/11 anniversary 6 years later. And Glenn Corbett, professor of fire science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, joins us to respond to listener questions rasied during our special 9/11 coverage this week.

Sam Seder on Air America radio also tells the Truthers they are nuts whenever they call.

[T.A.M.]

Interesting piece. Notice the professor of fire science give no credibility to the truthers...must be a shill...lol

Also notice he mentions a study going on in California which seems to indicate that had the WTCs been built in a traditional manner, with more columns, and not the elongated trusses, they probably would have remained standing.

TAM:)

[LashL]

Interesting piece. Notice the professor of fire science give no credibility to the truthers...must be a shill...lol

Also notice he mentions a study going on in California which seems to indicate that had the WTCs been built in a traditional manner, with more columns, and not the elongated trusses, they probably would have remained standing.

TAM:)

Also interesting is the fact that the tinhatters hawking their video, "Improbable Collaspe" insinuate that Corbett supports them.

http://www.improbablecollapse.com/screens2/index.html

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http://www.improbablecollapse.com/screens2/corbett.html

[MarkyX]

Corbett doesn't agree with anything the 9/11 deniers say, but he was very outspoken about how NIST handled the evidence. Despite this, he was still on the NIST advisory board, was used as a source for popular mechanics, and interviewed on P&T's bullsh!t

[LashL]

Corbett doesn't agree with anything the 9/11 deniers say, but he was very outspoken about how NIST handled the evidence. Despite this, he was still on the NIST advisory board, was used as a source for popular mechanics, and interviewed on P&T's bullsh!t

Yes, and the 9/11 deniers, in their usual fashion, cherrypick what he says and insinuate that he supports them. They are so predictable.

[njslim]

Looks like more of the media is taking a look at the Truthers and after getting
enough of the insanity is giving them the back of the hand....

[BigAl]

Lehrer has done it again. Today's 10 minute segment has lots of detail about what Giuliani heard and did on the morning of 9/11.

Following Up: What Did Rudy Know and When

New York Times columnist Jim Dwyer follows up on the charge that Mayor Giuliani knew the twin towers were going to collapse 15 minutes before it happened. He is the author of 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Times Books, 2005)

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2007/10/05

[T.A.M.]

Yes but unfortunately, the truthers will take the lack of "absolute explanation" on this and run around like chickens with their heads cut off, screaming..."See, See, they can't explain it completely, so he must have been in on it."

Just watch.

TAM:)