Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007

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Now my question is this... how far down the rabbit hole go? Really now, we DO know that some news don't make it for censorship reasons, but is it ethical? Are we really that dumbed down even today after the media has really shown us everything? And I don't mean just the news, we already are seeing it everywhere else here on the internet. If we can FIND this crap on the internet, what's stopping the media from showing it to people who doesn't?

I don't really know a lot about a number of these, but my guess is that since it became a little more obvious that some of the stories towards the end are fringe ones it might be because typical media outlets don't like covering those stories.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by RABicle

Some of these stories are fringe? Could you point out which ones are because personally I don't find the destruction of the rainforest, corporate subversion of environmental efforts and the stability of central America "fringe" issues.

Well...

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#18 Physicist Challenges Official 9-11 Story

Research into the events of September 11 by Brigham Young University physics professor, Steven E. Jones, concludes that the official explanation for the collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings is implausible according to laws of physics. Jones is calling for an independent, international scientific investigation “guided not by politicized notions and constraints but rather by observations and calculations.”

After having researched this dude's claims for a thread a long while back (I think it was in General Discussion) I think I can say this dude is full of horseshit. He intentionally misquotes authorities, takes passages out of context from reports, and does his very best to mislead his uninformed audience.

A quick example I can think of is how in his presentations he reiterates how some certain pillars which were found at ground zero were found to be completely unscorched. Of course, everyone would think that all the pillars would have been burned at some point during the massive fires happening in the building. However, if you actually read the report put out by the government (which he cites) you'd see he left out the part where they mentioned the lack of burning on these pillars supported the computer models developed by engineers to figure out how the building collapsed. The determined the pillars shouldn't have been burnt at all during the collapse of the buildings.

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I'll tell you why we arn't hearing about a lot of these stories: advertising revenue. Or to be more precise the lack of it. Do you think Coke-a-Cola would stand by if Mount Franklin and the rest of the bullshit bottled water industry was exposed for being the most disgusting exploitation of humanity's insecurity there is? Of course not, they'd ccut the millions of dollars they spend on advertising to any network who tried to run something like that.

I remember Penn & Teller actually doing a thing on bottled water a long while back on their show. I also thought it was common knowledge that most bottled water comes from the tap in various random townships. Then again, I'd also say that I have a preference in the taste of various brands of bottled waters and feel some definitely taste way better than the tap water did at my apartment (even after being run through a filter).

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