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 ...
Follow-up article from "Terror in the Skies" journalist with updates...
I won't watch Brokaw under any circumstances til election night, just to watch his face, and Russerts, to be honest.
As for Sawyer.....I might catch that. But I will definately check out Scarborough tonight.
Yep, and the pilots, stewardesses, FBI, TSA, and Los Angeles police are also all "paranoid racists" as well. Because as everyone knows, it's completely normal for a large group of guys to be huddled around the lavatories whispering to each other for the entire duration of a flight. Happens all 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.
Must have been bootleg copies of Michael Moore's trash Fahrenheit 911 and Bowling for Columbine?
Facts are nothing to liberal bias. They buy into their delusions wholeheartedly. How else could you explain New York voting for Kerry?
I guess the only thing to do is to have cameras in the john. It seems like a gross invasion of privacy but I'd rather have someone watch me tinkle than blow my family to smithereens.
Thanks. I've been out of pocket since the middle of last week and missed all the discussion.
Tom remember those British planes getting all the attention at Christmas? It was thought the bad guys were planning the same thing.
I understand how NBC and ABC are going to try to spin this against President Bush, but why in the hell are we letting 14 Syrians run amuck on an airplane while Grandma Whitey has to be stripsearched before they allow her to board?
I wish you hadn't said that. I've been very jittery all day, yet I can't put my finger on why. There is no reason for me to be anxious/nervous. Hopefully, I'll be able to blame it on hormones.
she's back
Can someone please post the entire article here?
Very good questions. I for one would like to know just what these characters did sfter landing in LA.
Very good questions. I for one would like to know just what these characters did after landing in LA.
The thing that bothers me the most is that the flight attendants didn't ask them to sit down during the descent second rush to the lavatory while the seatbelt sign was on.
I know I will darn sure watch it tonight. And bump, bttt.
Not again. This isn't a news story. It reads like a dime novel.
How many times has it been posted now? 30? I had 20 in the, "How many times is this gonna get posted pool."
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