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[McGoatski]

I`m dreading the response this might provoke but don`t shoot the messenger please

LiveLeak.com - wtc7 bbc

[Ray]

hmm. lipsynching issues?

[Dave]

Here's the response from the Head of News on BBC World;

The 9/11 conspiracy theories are pretty well known by now. The BBC addressed them earlier this month with a documentary, The Conspiracy Files, shown within the UK.

Until now, I don't think we've been accused of being part of the conspiracy. But now some websites are using news footage from BBC World on September 11th 2001 to suggest we were actively participating in some sort of attempt to manipulate the audience. As a result, we're now getting lots of emails asking us to clarify our position. So here goes:

1. We're not part of a conspiracy. Nobody told us what to say or do on September 11th. We didn't get told in advance that buildings were going to fall down. We didn't receive press releases or scripts in advance of events happening.

2. In the chaos and confusion of the day, I'm quite sure we said things which turned out to be untrue or inaccurate - but at the time were based on the best information we had. We did what we always did - sourced our reports, used qualifying words like "apparently" or "it's reported" or "we're hearing" and constantly tried to check and double check the information we were receiving.

An image of the website hosting the alleged BBC World footage3. Our reporter Jane Standley was in New York on the day of the attacks, and like everyone who was there, has the events seared on her mind. I've spoken to her today and unsurprisingly, she doesn't remember minute-by-minute what she said or did - like everybody else that day she was trying to make sense of what she was seeing; what she was being told; and what was being told to her by colleagues in London who were monitoring feeds and wires services.

4. We no longer have the original tapes of our 9/11 coverage (for reasons of cock-up, not conspiracy). So if someone has got a recording of our output, I'd love to get hold of it. We do have the tapes for our sister channel News 24, but they don't help clear up the issue one way or another.

5. If we reported the building had collapsed before it had done so, it would have been an error - no more than that. As one of the comments on You Tube says today "so the guy in the studio didn't quite know what was going on? Woah, that totally proves conspiracy... "

Richard Porter is head of news, BBC World

BBC NEWS | The Editors

[Dayeth]

exactly.

[Stripey]

The BBC has lost all it's tapes of 11/09? I find that a little hard to swallow.
As the building is still standing in the background behind the reporter as she claims it has collapsed, it's hard to believe that noone would just take a look out of the window to verify what they were told by the source.

[Stripey]

"CNN beat the BBC by nearly an hour - Just after 4.00pm on 9/11, CNN’s Aaron Brown reported that WTC-7 had either collapsed or was about to. Now, given that WTC-7 is still visible behind Aaron in this video, clearly it has not already collapsed, so where did this report come from?"

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Stripey

The BBC has lost all it's tapes of 11/09? I find that a little hard to swallow.

No, BBC World has lost it's tapes. As stated they have the coverage from News 24 and other BBC channels.

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by Stripey

"CNN beat the BBC by nearly an hour - Just after 4.00pm on 9/11, CNN’s Aaron Brown reported that WTC-7 had either collapsed or was about to. Now, given that WTC-7 is still visible behind Aaron in this video, clearly it has not already collapsed, so where did this report come from?"

Erm, if CNN were reporting that the building had either "collapsed or about to", then surely they were right in their prediction that it was about to tumble down?

News outlets do get it wrong, you know...I remeber on the day of the London bombings, they were reporting power surges for at least an hour after the event.

[Stripey]

Originally Posted by Cloud

Erm, if CNN were reporting that the building had either "collapsed or about to", then surely they were right in their prediction that it was about to tumble down?

How would anyone know it was "about to collapse"? You would think CNN would have at least 1 person on the ground who could look at the building and tell wether it was still standing or not, especially considering it's in the shot behind the reporter.

[McGoatski]

Originally Posted by Stripey

"Now, given that WTC-7 is still visible behind Aaron in this video, clearly it has not already collapsed, so where did this report come from?"

Larry Silverstein said to the fire department commander "the smartest thing to do is pull it."

...and..

Firefighters withdrawing from the area stated the building was going to "blow up".

..then....

WTC 7's roof crumbled and the building subsequently collapsed perfectly into its own footprint.