Dear Dylan Avery - Director of "Loose Change"
On behalf of the general public, and in particular the members of the skeptic community, I would like to protest the content of your film "Loose Change".
I wish to make a formal complaint about the appalling coverage of the official story wrt 9/11, from beginning to end in your movie. I myself am an agnostic as concerns 911 being an inside job and from a detailed analysis of the evidence from both sides over a long period of time, I am deeply suspicious of anyone who is either certain 911 was an inside job or certain that it was not. The governemnt, NIST, FEMA, ASCE, FBI, CIA, have produced an enormous amount of unchallenged highly credible and very damning evidence. It has not produced many spurious claims, fringe theories, and debunked ideas.
Why then, in the 2 hours this program devoted to the issue, does it
a) Make false or misleading statements
B) Unjustifiably introduce bias
c) Give a disproportionate amount of airtime and credibility to "truthers" than to people actually involved in the 9/11 investigations.
d) Focus on speculation, hearsay, non-expert opinion, as opposed to the damning evidence provided by panels of scientists and engineers.
I will go through each in turn and for the sake of brevity mention the main flaws (a more detailed analysis would be voluminous).
a) False or misleading statements
1) The twin towers were brought down using Explosives. To date there is no solid evidence, no expert opinion that backs this up or supports this claim, yet you have it in your movie.
2) Pentagon hit by a missile. Once again, no proof a missile hit the pentagon, but there are hundreds of witnesses that saw a jet airliner hit it on 9/11.
3) Hijackers are still alive. Not one interview with any of the alleged "still alive" hijackers despite ample time (5 years) to obtain interviews from them.
4) Cellphone calls were faked. Despite the evidence from the Mousaui trial that the calls, with all but an occasional exception, were made from the planes airfones, you continue to promote the lies.
b)Introduction of Bias - Throughout the program the wording, tone of voice, editing and imagery was clearly designed to sway viewers away from the viewpoints of those in agreement with the official story of 911. Examples are too numerous to mention, so I will focus on one issue of "evidence";
Evidence - The documentary "Loose Change" despite numerous claims, provides not one single piece of solid physical evidence to back any of its claims, yet in promotes said ideas as the "truth".
c)Disproportionate airtime,
The inclusion of people such as Kevin Ryan, Yourself, Steven Jones, and other "truther" so called experts, while providing almost no time or interviews with real experts such as the scientists and engineers of NIST, the FBI agents, the CIA, or others leaves a clear feeling of whose side you fall on.
d)Focus on unfounded accusations and hearsay on the events of 9/11. Despite overwhelming evidence that the attacks were carried out by arab hijackers in the name of Al-Qaeda, using commercial jet airliners to crash into the WTCs and the Pentagon, you instead have chosen to focus on silly speculation such as "a missile hit the pentagon", "Controlled Demolition", "Remote Controlled Planes", "Thermite", and other speculative topics.
I am not a journalist, merely a concerned citizen. Let me reiterate, I am not convinced yet either way on this issue, I am just aware that there is still a lot of very damning evidence against Al-Qaeda and OBL. It is with this in mind that the blatant use of every kind of trick of bias, omission and manipulation in this documentary troubles me. I thought that American Citizens such as yourself were supposed to be fair and balanced when making a DOCUMENTARY. This programme was demonstrably biased and clearly made with some kind of agenda. The only other alternative is extreme incompetence which I find problematic due to the large amount of time, and effort invested in making this documentary.
Please explain yourselfs.
TAM - JREFer
