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| Joe | Posted: Jan 10, 2013 - 10:16 |
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 Level: 8 CS Original | A media professor at Florida Atlantic University who is questioning the Sandy Hook massacre has caused controversy with his conspiracy claims. James Tracy, who writes a personal blog about conspiracy theories, believes the events that unfolded at Sandy Hook did not happen as reported. The professor writes on his blog, Memory Hole, "While it sounds like an outrageous claim, one is left to inquire whether the Sandy Hook shooting ever took place--at least in the way law enforcement authorities and the nation's news media have described." He suggests that there were multiple shooters and that the number of dead is incorrect. The blog post was published on the Global Research site, where it caught the attention of the Web. The academic, who is known for his conspiracy theories on 9/11 and the Oklahoma bombing, believes--as he claims on his blog and recently stated on a radio show--that trained "crisis actors" may have been employed by the Obama administration to shape public opinion on gun control. The 47-year-old, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in mass communication, wrote on his blog, " As documents relating to the Sandy Hook shooting continue to be assessed and interpreted by independent researchers there is a growing awareness that the media coverage of the massacre of 26 children and adults was intended primarily for public consumption to further larger political ends." According to his faculty profile, the professor "teaches courses examining the relationship between commercial and alternative news media and socio-political issues and events." He also lists his recent work in "Censored 2013: Sourcebook for the Media Revolution. The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2011-2012." When questioned about his theories by a local CBS12 news reporter, Tracy responded, "The whole country mourned about Sandy Hook, but yet again the investigation that journalistic institutions should have carried out never took place, in my opinion." http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/professor-won-t-back-down-newtown-massacre-conspiracy-183530799.html He added, "As a society we need to look at things more carefully. Perhaps we as a society have been conditioned to be duped." His blog, with 222 followers, lays out his theory in detail, suggesting that it was a training exercise in which actually nobody was killed. He writes, "To declare that the shooting 'never took place' is cause for intense opprobrium in most polite circles where, in familiar Orwellian fashion, the media-induced trance and dehistoricized will to believe maintain their hold." Speaking on behalf of Tracy, Peter Phillips, president of the Media Freedom Foundation and Project Censored, said in a statement to Yahoo News: James Tracy isn't promoting a "conspiracy" theory regarding Sandy Hook, but rather saying the mainstream media distorts the news, and doesn't follow up on important questions. There were reports of more than one shooter in the Sandy Hook case. Tracy is not denying that it happened, but he is saying that when such events do happen it is the responsibility of the media to fully investigate all aspects of the story and not just sensationalize the tragedy. Tracy's employer has distanced itself from its faculty member's remarks. Mary Jane Saunders, the president of Florida Atlantic University, said in a statement to Yahoo News that reads in part: I am sure that many of you are aware of the recent comments by a Florida Atlantic University faculty member regarding the tragic events that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14. I want to make it clear that those views and opinions are not shared by Florida Atlantic University, and I am personally saddened by any media stories that have added to the pain felt by the victims' families. FAU joins the entire nation and people around the world in feeling profound grief for the lives lost on that awful day. | |||||
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| Joe | Posted: Jan 10, 2013 - 10:34 |
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Level: 8 CS Original | From every tragedy springs dozens of conspiracy theories, and the Sandy Hook massacre is no different. Of course, those theories usually leak from places like the "United Slaves of Amerika" Facebook page, Twitchy.com commenters and BeforeItsNews.com. Where you don't usually find them -- or at least where you hope not to find them -- is on the personal blogs of professors of accredited public universities. Alas, the world is not what we want it to be, and tenured Florida Atlantic University professor of media history James Tracy is wondering if the Newtown shooting "was intended primarily for public consumption to further larger political ends." Naturally, Tracy is a practiced conspiracy theorist. His first post on the Sandy Hook shooting begins thusly: It is now beyond question that the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. all involved patsies, additional gunman and perhaps most importantly, mass media complicity to achieve their political ends. Likewise, the central thesis of his argument -- and that of a host of conspiracy theorists -- is that there were multiple shooters inside Sandy Hook that day. Several independent researchers and most recently Infowars.com reporter Rob Dew have over the past few days pointed to evidence strongly suggesting how two additional Sandy Hook shooting suspects were apprehended by police in the minutes following 9:35AM when officers were dispatched to the elementary school.[2] To Tracy, the seemingly obvious conclusion -- that any suspects were detained erroneously and subsequently released -- is tied into that third point: mass media conspiracy. Journalists capable of exercising a modest degree of autonomy and personal insight would have clearly recognized such leads, thereby extending them to a more rigorous examination of law enforcement spokespersons and the broader Newtown community. Instead, the news media once again wholly abdicated any such responsibility to serve the public by unquestioningly parroting official pronouncements and carefully instructing their audiences on exactly how to interpret the event. His blog posts are, as you would expect, incredibly long and nearly impossible to get through. But in an interview on Monday, he was a bit more direct about what he believes happened at Sandy Hook. Tracy said he believes the deaths at Sandy Hook may have resulted from a training exercise. "Was this to a certain degree constructed?" he said. "Was this a drill? "Something most likely took place," he said. "One is left with the impression that a real tragedy took place." But, he added, he has not seen bodies, or photos of bodies. "Overall, I'm saying the public needs more information to assess what took place. We don't have that. And when the media and the public don't have that, various sorts of ideas can arise." Tracy said also has doubts about the official version of the Kennedy assassination, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 9-11 terror attacks and the Aurora, Colo., theater murders. One is also of course left with the impression that the families of Sandy Hook victims might have a bit to say about whether or not a tragedy took place. FAU, for their part, had this to say. "James Tracy does not speak for the university," Lisa Metcalf, FAU's director of media relations, told FoxNews.com in an email. "The website on which his post appeared is not affiliated with FAU in any way. As for any previous disciplinary actions at FAU, we do not comment on personnel matters." http://gawker.com/5974364/florida-atlantic-university-professor-wonders-if-the-sandy-hook-shooting-isnt-just-one-big-mass-media-conspiracy | |||||
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| Wolf Bird | Posted: Jan 10, 2013 - 17:27 |
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 I shoot you dead. Level: 9 CS Original | Is it just me, or is DA GUBBERMINT taking its sweet time to implement its ultimate plans? Like...how many mass shootings have there been that were supposed to lead to the confiscation of guns now? | |||||
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