If 9/11 was an inside job, as I believe the collapse of WTC7 proves it must, then there must have been an overall plan of battle.
A battleplan requires players and a script.
Once in motion it requires coordination and people following a script based on the assumption that certain objectives will be achieved.
Reinforcing the lie that WTC7 collapsed during the collapse of WTC1, would be a logical part of such a script.
If the firefighters were incredulous, reporters would be less likely to support the Official Conspiracy Theory.
WTC7 was expected to be felled in the aftermath of WTC1's collapse.
Had that occurred, the CNN report would have fit nicely. Certainly the CNN reporter, Allan Dodds Frank, appeared unsurprised about this 50-story collapse.
The planners of 9/11 hoped to shock 'n awe the public and the press into believing that the 19 arab terrorist-hijackers with box cutters story was the cause of the WTC Tower collapses, but it also must have crossed their minds that people might be incredulous.
It might not be believed that 2 planes crashing into the towers could make them collapse. A very reasonable concern.
By spreading plausible-sounding disinformation while the shocking events unfolded, there would be a greater likelihood of acceptance.
This was readily observed over the 7 hours that WTC7 remained standing. There were numerous reports by firefighters and their superiors of how WTC7 was definitely going to collapse.
Reports supported by emotion rather than experience-based deduction and logical expectation.
MM