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Mr. Manjoo has been quietly keeping us informed on the latest technology leaps and he has done an excellent job at this but now, as he did a few years ago, he has found another hornets nest to kick around as he did over the contested 2000 and 2004 elections (well documented to the contrary by RFK, Jr., Greg Pallast and many others).
Bias is certainly not something exclusive to the conspiracists as Mr. Manjoo has a heap load of his own it seems, publishing a book about his view of things as if it is the last word. Spinning it now by using digital photography as the scapegoat for all he does not agree with. Doesn't anything about the amount of information being suppressed by the media and current, super secretive, administration have any play as to the possible reason why so many conspiracies abound, or does he think that's a load of hooey as well?
Other than Mr Manjoo's wallet, what does this book do to benefit anyone let alone advance logical and reasonable discourse? When investigations are stopped by the individuals being investigated, when buildings that were not hit by an airline, free-fall as only a properly set-up demolition would do, when all warnings, we could find out about, were ignored by the people elected to protect us, what is one to think. So what does one do when the questions millions around the world want answered are being ignored or discounted? Oh, just point out that you can't tell from the blurry photo so what the newspapers report must be the truth.
Wrong. For something as important as 9-11, we need REAL investigations by unbiased, un-bribable individuals. A football game is fine in the context of Farhad's argument but not our national security which we know, as our Constitution has been whittled down to a wisp of it's former self by this power hungry administration, is only being used now as a political excuse to destroy their opposition. Maybe Americans are too close to this to be good judges and foreign investigators should examine the evidence, but whatever the case, using 9-11 as a spring board for why this theory of blurry photography being useless as evidence, which any 8 year old would tell you, is just plain incendiary and smells of of hype to get a book noticed.
