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"Progressive" Washington Think Tank Censors
All Independent 9/11 Research
'Project Censored' watchdog was told that nothing
about 9/11 will be published
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director of a prominent investigative journalism group has told
reporters that the organisation's work is being censored because
it continues to highlight stories surrounding questions over
the official explanation of events on the 11th of September
2001.
Project
Censored is a long running non-profit national
media watchdog group that was founded in 1976 by journalism
professor Carl Jensen.
It is operated out of the School of Social Sciences
at Sonoma State University, with both faculty and students involved
in its preparation.
The project's core directive is to highlight newsworthy
stories that have been overlooked, ignored or actively censored
by the corporate mainstream media.
The organisation publishes a volume of what it
believes are the 25 most significant of these stories every
year. The stories often originate from alternative media researchers
and independent sources. The results are published in some major
newspapers and journals.
In 2004 Infowars' own Alex Jones was awarded second
place at the Project Censored Awards for his unparalleled analysis
of Patriot Act II, the freedom stripping follow
up legislation to the first Patriot Act, passed after 9/11.
The commentary subsequently appeared in hundreds of newspapers
and other online media resources thanks to the diligence of
Project Censored in shining a light on the issue.
According to its directors, the group's work is
being made more difficult now, however, due to censorship of
Project Censored because of its ongoing commitment to cover
9/11 Truth stories.
9/11 Truth issues have made the top 25 Project
Censored awards frequently over the past nine years.
Last week, Project Censored directors Dr. Peter
Phillips and Mickey Huff explained the difficulties to KPFA's
Guns and Butter broadcast, a favourite "progressive"
talk radio show in the San Francisco Bay Area.
They noted that for the first time, pieces they
had submitted to publication outlet Minuteman
Media on the evidence for a cover up of the truth
surrounding the 9/11 attacks had been actively rejected. Huff
explained that since Minuteman media had been taken over by
a left leaning Washington Think Tank called The Institute for
Policy Studies, the subject has been blackballed:
"We've never had an op-ed piece that we were
contracted to do rejected, outright rejected, and it wasn't
just rejected because of some contractual issue or violation,"
Huff said. "We were actually told specifically from people
at IPS that it was because we mentioned 9/11 as part of a piece
on state crimes against democracy."
"What we're suggesting is that the events
of September 11th have all the trappings of a potential state
crime against democracy." Huff continued. "So we mentioned
the scientific studies done by Stephen Jones and the open chemical
physics journal, and we included Richard Gage and the Architects
and Engineers group, 1200 experts now saying that the official
science just doesn't make sense and just doesn't add up, I mean
it defies everything we know about scientific methodology and
so forth."
"They literally told us that they were not
going to publish anything that talked about 9/11."
"We were dumbfounded, at first we were waiting
for the laughter tracks to come up and be like 'Oh we're censoring
Project Censored', but they were deadly serious." Huff
stated.
But that is not where the matter ended. Huff then
explained that after being informed by IPS that their pieces
on 9/11 were "too divisive" and could "alienate
readers in the heartland", they discovered, upon attending
the IPS annual conference, that IPS staff had no knowledge of
these developments and after reading the piece, were of the
opinion that it should have run.
Eventually, the Project Censored team were informed
by IPS heads that they were no longer welcome to write for IPS
or Minuteman Media.
"And here we are with 'the good lefties',"
Huff continued, it's a story of the power elite, of potential
mass deception and propaganda that gets us into two illegal
wars, eviscerates constitutional liberties, bankrupts society
both economically and morally the world over, you'd think that
it'd be a huge thing to debate on the merits of science and
fact."
"If you have a free press structure, there
is no subject that cannot be discussed." Huff added.
Listen to the interview below (The 9/11 information
begins at around 10 mins):
Guns
and Butter - September 15, 2010 at 1:00pm
Click to listen (or download)
This is not the first time Project Censored has run into resistance
owing to its refusal to back down on 9/11 Truth.
In 2007 Judges Robert Jensen, a journalism professor,
and Norman Solomon, a syndicated columnist, severed their ties
with the national media watchdog group over its decision to
highlight the work of physics professor Steven Jones, who has
provided analysis that suggests the explosive thermate was present
in debris from the collapsed twin towers.
At the time Peter Phillips told the Illinois
Times that he believed Jones’ work warranted
the recognition:
“It’s a valid news story,” Phillips said.
“It deserves to be covered. We cover stories that people
don’t like. Our job is to talk about stories that don’t
get talked about.”
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Steve Watson is the London based writer
and editor at Alex Jones' Infowars.net, and regular contributor
to Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International
Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham
in England.
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