Je vous livre une analyse - compte rendu des reportages de NBC le 11 septembre.

C'est assez bien fait et cela contient des éléments supplémentaires par rapport aux vidéos que l'on a l'habitude de voir des directs et qui permettent d'en savoir plus à propos de la chronolgie des explosions et rapports de bombes le matin du 11 septembre.

Cela permet d'éviter un certain nombre d'approximations et de ne pas attribuer un certain nombre de témoignages à des explosions pré effondrement alors qu'elles se sont produites après. Mais cela permet aussi d'établir une meilleur chronologie des explosions entendues avant l'effondrement.

http://www.teslapress.com/NBC%20html%20 … ersion.htm

Je mets en gras les passages qui se rapportent au sujet de ce topic. Et en bleu, mes commentaires personnels.

NBC Spins 911

by George Trinkaus



This is a review of NBC-TV News coverage of the September 11, 2001 event from about 10:30 AM EDT (when the VCR, here in the Pacific time zone, finally got rolling) to 2:00 PM EDT, when officials began declaring a sort of All Clear. The choice to record NBC instead of one of the other networks was purely arbitrary and does not matter. With a few notable exceptions, they all put out the same story that momentous day, as is the case on any day. A tape of the earlier hours would be valuable. Also valuable would be a recording made from a local New York City channel. But one should be grateful for what one has. There is plenty here. One advantage in switching on the VCR for an event like 911 is that the recording may capture some spontaneous "on the ground" reportage later forgotten.


1. On the Ground

At 10:38 AM we are just ten minutes past the collapse of the second World Trade Center tower. Pat Dawson is one of the few NBC reporters filing from downtown.

Excited, almost breathless, Dawson reminds us that the towers are one hundred and ten stories each. "What I saw fall had to be forty or fifty stories of that building at first. The skeleton was left at, I'd say, the fiftieth or fortieth floor, after the shell fell down. The steel…was literally sheathed off, and it took probably another thirty seconds before the skeleton crashed into the street."

This is an example of an on-the-ground report with some substance, some eye-witness detail. Unfortunately, as the day wears on, such reports become progressively more rare, and the challenge facing the NBC News producers of filling thirty-six hours of marathon non-stop, commercial-less airtime is met by airing selected voices of "analysts" and "experts" who are remote from the impact scene.

At 11:20 AM Dawson is back for less than a minute from downtown. He reports police are ordering an evacuation of the area due to a bomb scare at Stuyvesant High School. Dawson is told to move northward.

Attention donc, ces pompiers ne parlent pas des tours mais d'une alerte à la bombe dans une école qui s'est produite après les effondrements des tours.

Then it’s not until 11:30 AM that we get another report from lower Manhattan, this time from an agitated and somewhat disoriented Ashleigh Banfield of MSNBC. Banfield guesses that she is "just about, uh, five to ten blocks north of the actual site of where those two towers have come down." She admits, "We are obviously having a bit of trouble maintaining our location."

explosions

"We just heard one more explosion," continues Banfield, "That’s about the fifth one we’ve heard. Police are telling us they’re either car bombs or they’re simply cars that have overheated so much they are exploding." Banfield reports how she and her producer narrowly escaped a suffocating cloud that roared down the street following the collapse. They broke a window and retreated into an apartment. "That is the dust cloud we were in," she says, breathlessly, pointing behind her. (Camera swings to view of clouded avenue, then back to Banfield, who’s bending down and picking something up off the cluttered street.) On parle ici d'explosions post effondrement.

Ce témoignage ne peut donc pas être pris comme une preuve d'explosions antérieures aux effondrements des tours.

"I want to show you something, if I can. See if you can zero in on this. This is the kind of debris we're seeing all over the ground." (She holds up a piece of paper burnt around the edges.) "You can see the address," continues Banfield, "One World Trade Center…trade center…trade center." And five times this broken record. Then a beep, and audio ceases. Then video flashes off.

The next voice is that of the Today Show’s Katie Couric, "OK, we are obviously having technical problems with Ashleigh Banfield, who is on the ground at the World Trade Center, says Katie, who’s serving as a co-anchor at NBC News’ midtown studios this eventful morning.

Then anchor Tom Brokaw breaks in. He takes our attention far away to the Pennsylvania crash scene. Not to any on-the-ground, mind you, for there is no reportage from that mystery scene whatsoever, just a single view of burning wreckage from a great, great distance, and Brokaw’s voice-over.

media banished

The American viewing public, riveted to NBC and panting with curiosity, is not availed of another on-the-ground until 11:36 AM, when the anchors turn the attention back downtown ever so briefly. Again it’s with Banfield. She is being pushed away by a Port Authority policeman in a white uniform wearing a breathing mask.

"We’re clearing the area for only emergency personnel, either law enforcement or medical," he shouts at her through his mask.

He means "no press."

But Banfield bravely persists. She is trying to interview the cop. "Do you know anything about those extra explosions we have heard?"

"No, I do not," says the cop, trying to break away from the reporter while at the same time trying to push Banfield and her crew and all other media out of the area.

"Were they car bombs?" she insists.

. "I have no idea, ma’am."

"What about the sewers? Are they looking for bombs in the sewers?"

He ignores her. He walks away. She holds her turf. Then, suddenly, in an awkward transition, the audio switches back to Tom and Katie but with Banfield still on the screen talking earnestly into the camera. Her audio has been cut off. Now it’s back to the anchors.

On en saura donc pas plus sur la nature des explosions post effondrements

nuclear winter

Tom and Katie make no comment on Banfield’s explosives report. They take no issue with, and make no comment about, the banning of the press from the WTC area.

Soon after 911, NBC News will send Ashleigh Banfield off to Afghanistan.

Tom and Katie are now with MSNBC reporter Ron Ansana, who’s in the studio with them. Ansana is just back from assignment downtown. He is a survivor, an escapee from the collapse. He wears a coat and tie but remains a bit disheveled, with "dirt and debris in his hair and on his jacket," notes Katie.

Ansana was in the streets near the south tower when it collapsed. "We could see it disintegrate, and we looked up and could see elements of the building come down, and we ran. We ran through a quarantine zone, actually. And, honestly, it was like a scene out of Independence Day," says Ansana. "Everything began to rain down around us. It was pitch black, as though the winds were ripping through the corridors in lower Manhattan. I ducked around a corner, got into a car. It was nighttime.."

Tom: "Was this the first tower that collapsed?"

"Yes, I do believe it was the first tower, the south tower, and (pause, takes a deep breath) as it was coming down"

Tom asks, "Once it began to clear, after the several minutes of pitch darkness, what did you see in the streets, then?"

"It was really deep gray smoke. It honestly looked a bit like nuclear winter, something you see in the movies, with ash all over the ground, on top of cars, on police cars, on windows."

Katie wants Ansana to talk about injuries. "One policeman had a deep gash in his forehead…A young lady had shrapnel in her arm." Katie asks about "peripheral damage." Ansana says, "I imagine the collateral damage was enormous."

The Ron Ansana interview is once-removed from being on-the-ground with the event. He is back home midtown at NBC in Rockefeller Center. "Independence Day," "nuclear winter", and "collateral damage" are interpolations, hardly the spontaneous grit of the reports from Dawson and Banfield.

Nuclear winter is in the same metaphorical domain as ground zero, yet to be introduced. Epicenter plays for a while at NBC today. There is, evidently, a commitment to atomic imagery. Why?

Ansana refers to his running through a quarantine zone, but the term is never defined.

secondary explosives

It is nearly thirty minutes before the curious viewer is granted another on-the-ground WTC report. This comes from Pat Dawson and is notable for obvious reasons.

At 11:56 AM Dawson is reporting on an interview he had conducted "just moments ago" with Albert Perry, Chief of Fire Safety for the Fire Department of New York City.

Dawson: "Perry told me that shortly after nine o’clock he had ten alarms, roughly 200 men, in the building trying to effect a rescue of the civilians who were in there. And, basically, he received word of some kind of secondary device, that is, another bomb going off.

"He tried to get his men out quickly as he could, but he said there was an explosion that took place. And an hour after the first hit, the first crash [that] took place, there was another explosion in one of the towers here.

"According to his theory, he thinks there were actually devices that were planted in the building.

" One may have been in the plane. A second device, he speculates, was probably planted in the building.

"So that’s what we’ve been told by Albert Perry, who is chief of Safety for the New York City Fire Department, just moments ago," reports Dawson.

Cet extrait fait donc bien références à des explosions entendues par les pompiers lorsqu'ils étaient dans le WTC!

Dawson goes on, "Now we are continuing to hear explosions here downtown."

Et les explosions ont continué après les effondrements aux alentours des WTC.

Dawson reports that "the whole area is cordoned off and that rescue workers are waiting to get in."

"But the bottom line," Dawson concludes, "is that he, Albert Perry, said that he probably lost a great many men in those secondary explosions, and he said that there were literally hundreds, if not thousands, of people in those towers when the explosions took place[/b]."

Non seulement, les explosions secondaires sont confirmées mais en plus elles auraient tué beaucoup d'hommes d'après le chef des pompiers qui se trouvait sur place. Il est tout de même étonnant dans ces conditions que la théorie officielle n'ait pas cherché un instant à les expliquer et les ai même cachés à tout prix.

no comment

End Dawson, and it’s back to midtown and Brokaw. [b]Tom has nothing to say about Dawson's report. Rather, he segues immediately to some video footage from far, far away: street scenes said to be of Palestinians celebrating the disaster.

Christian Martin, producer of NBC’s Dateline, is interviewed in the studio at 12:30 PM. He was caught near the collapse, like Banfield and Ansana. He talks of the "force of the blast coming down the canyon." Martin managed to shoot a few seconds of video as he crawled under a car for protection. The footage is shown and it is reshown

At 12:42 PM, NBC’s Ann Thompson, another escapee, reports that she was at Broadway and Fullerton, trying to get to the burning WTC, when "we heard an explosion," from the first tower, and a "wall of debris" came toward her. She said it took five minutes for the cloud to pass. She retreated into a building for safety.

At about 10:30 AM, Thompson says she had come back out into the street. "We walked down Broadway toward Canal and we heard the second explosion" A fireman told her to get out of the building "because, if there was a third explosion, the building they were in would become dangerous."

Thompson, too, has her report interrupted by a cop in a breathing mask who motions forcibly to her to move away.

Pat Dawson files one more downtown report, an unmemorable one about the Red Cross center, and then he is off for the day. There will be a few eyewitnesses interviewed by telephone. The Ansana studio interview is replayed. (Dawson's and Banfield's WTC reports are not.) Then reports of any substance regarding downtown taper off into almost nothing.

(...)

collapse mystery

Tom is saying about the nuclear-winter devastation that it is "as effective as if a bomb were dropped there. Airliners hitting buildings, which came down, we presume," he qualifies, finally remembering the Dawson report, "because of the initial explosion. There may have been secondary explosions detonated in the building placed there by these terrorists,"

(...)

Voilà, c'est un bon compte-rendu et il y a d'autres éléments intéressants qui ne concernent pas le sujet du topic que j'ai skippé. Cela veut la peine de lire tout l'article.

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Dernière modification par charmord (26-09-2008 11:35:55)