Posted on 07/19/2004 10:15:47 AM PDT by jimbo123
Last Tuesday morning, WomensWallStreet.com (WWS) published my first-person account of a recent Northwest Airlines flight that I took from Detroit to Los Angeles called Terror in the Skies, Again? A heads up about this article went out in our Daily Cents email -- our subscriber newsletter which primarily features financial tips and information for women.
On Wednesday morning, the WWS page views were unusually high, something like 10 times the normal amount. Apparently our readers had been emailing the article to their friends, family and colleagues and everyone was reading it.
By Thursday morning, that number had again multiplied ten-fold. It felt like the shampoo commercial from my youth: they told two friends, then they told two friends, then they told two friends. We sat in the WWS offices reading through your emails, taking stock of what you had to say. As the afternoon went on, the number of people reading the article continued to increase and the telephone was ringing off the hook.
And then a powerful thing happened. The mainstream media started calling.
The following statement was made by Daniel Drezner, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, on his website danieldrezner.com:
I received a mass email linking to this disturbing first-person account by Annie Jacobsen... I can say that the e-mail sent to me and other bloggers was cc-ed to movers and shakers in the mediaspere -- Bill Keller, David Ignatius, George Will, Anne Applebaum, and Nicholas D. Kristoff. So they're certainly aware of the story... I'd like to see real journalists dig deeper into this.
Dig they did. NBC was the first major news outlet to contact WomensWallStreet. The producer I spoke with on the telephone said the FBI had confirmed that 14 Syrians were on the flight, they confirmed the details about what happened upon landing in Los Angeles, and they said that the accounts from the flight attendants regarding what happened during the flight matched the accounts given by me and my husband to the FBI after we landed.
Then I spoke with a producer from ABC. She explained that she could not get Dave Adams, Head of Public Affairs of the Federal Air Marshal Services (FAM), on the phone. So she asked me some of the questions that she had wanted to ask him: Where exactly did this band of 14 musicians play? What was the name of the band? Who booked the band and what kind of music did they play? Did anyone follow up and actually witness these 14 men performing at their desert casino gig? I had none of the answers, even though I had asked Adams these exact questions myself when we spoke last week. The ABC producer also asked me other questions which had crossed my mind after hanging up with Adams. Did I know anything about their return flight on JetBlue? Did the men go back to Syria? Did I believe FAM's story?
(Excerpt) Read more at womenswallstreet.com ...
Does this fit the criteria?
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I'd live. Will you be a man of your word?
Yes, we'd be better off altogether if BOTH Republicans and Democrats would worry about our national security and quit trying to play every little thing for some sort of partisan advanatage. Not to mention worrying about political correctness.
Living is not a plan of action, it is a net result. Tell us all about what measures you'd take to subdue the 14 musicians acting suspiciously.
By the way. I will be away from the site for a while so no big rush on the plan!
It's the net result of not getting dead. You've already said you would ignore my advice -- actually you said you would do the opposite. So? There's nothing I can say to you. Besides ... Life!
Because you don't have a plan. That is really sad. Unlike the author of the story you have all the details up front. No plan is a bad plan.
The old Prussian said when action starts plans go out the window.
In other words you are full of hot air. All tough guy in the virtual world. You always need a plan so that you have something to deviate from.
Being flamed is meaningless, says more about the poster most of the time.
"btw, it seems pretty obvious she is going to be used to undermine the Administrations contention that we are in fact safer today than we were prior to 9/11."
"That would be pretty stupid since her first article stated that her husband was told by the flight attendant that them men were being watched (studied) by several air marshals. Seems to me that this is much more than was being done before to 9-11."
Stupid? Hmmmmm. Since your post, there have been over a half dozen major media outlets taking this apart and putting it back together again.
Its "political".
Well the most persistent one can't even give us his plan.
Later got to out for a while.
"Well the most persistent one can't even give us his plan. "
They never can......(grin)
All hat no cattle.
I thyink you have a good understanding of the dynamics here.
Serious frustration on my part, too, about not getting the questions you posed answered.
I think this will fade away with only the poor souls like us really caring and paying attention to it.
I still don't understand, far as I know, why NO coverage by Fox...
I did not see Fox 'n' Friends this A.M.--perhaps there was something about it?
Hoping Michelle Malkin gets on T.V. and generates some broader interest.
That's where I first saw the story. Then I saw it here on FR.
The date is wrong. He would have had to have taken an earlier flight to be at the gig.
I was listening to Hannity on the radio several week ago. A FReeper called in and identified himself as such. I don't remember the subject. Sean said that he used to love FR but it seemed of late that too many FReepers practice eating their young. I've only been here since Jan 03 and I fully understand Sean's comment. Sad thing is some of the worst, My way or the Highway, FReepers have been here for years. Were I a fence sitter, I know it would be hard to lean right, when I see some of these folk.
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