Nothing wrong with QUESTIONING everything;
just too many CONCLUSIONS being drawn  ... on both
sides.

BE's post isnt BEs post, its a link to someone who has
nowt better to do than find spurious connections between
different events and internet results, IMO.  Proves zero.

Ironic that some of you here will question everything EXCEPT what you can find on YouTube to support your conspiracy theories, read on rightwing websites, Breitbart or what comes from the mouthes of the likes of Limbaugh.  Seems that a man-made sunami, government backed assassinations, the insistance that Obama wasn't born in the US, and there is  shadow government waiting to gas all of us is assigned more credibilty than the murder of 20 children. 

Paranoia will destroy ya...............

Forget about youtube, do you believe the news media ?

I remember when reporters investigated stories and reported all the verified facts, yes back in the day they where held accountable for what they reported.
Not so today.

Today you get sound bites fed to the media and no one is held accountable for the truth, accuracy, or the whole story.
News is no longer unbiased as they have all been bought out by large corporations with agendas.

So you look in all kinds of places to fit the missing pieces together and if youtube has a credible, I say credible bit of information, don't kill the messenger.
It's up to you to decide what has merit and what does not.

It's not rocket science to know when something just doesn't add up, or when your being manipulated.

James Tracy, FAU Professor, Says Sandy Didn't Happen; Revels In Notoriety

 
By Terrence McCoyWed., Jan. 9 2013 at 8:45 AM
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Don't believe anything the media tells you. Ever.

Americans have long tolerated if not wallowed in conspiracy theories. Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't alone when he shot Kennedy. Aliens landed in Area 51. We never got to the moon, etc. etc.

 

But quite possibly the most despicable and callous of all conspiracy theories recently rose from South Florida. James Tracy, an associate professor at Florida Atlantic University, has questioned whether the Sandy Hook killings -- in which 20 babies were killed by a haunted and disturbed young man -- ever happened. It could all be a hoax, he says, yet another example of collusion between the U.S. authorities and the "corporate media."

"While it sounds like an outrageous claim," he wrote on his blog, one is left to inquire whether the Sandy Hook shootings ever took place -- at least in the way law enforcement authorities and the nation's news media have described."

Tracy's evidence?

Because victims' families asked for privacy to grieve. He then calls Emilie Parker's dad her "alleged father" and "contrived."

This, Tracy contends, can only mean one thing. The government and our media overlords have pulled a fast one on us again. We've been had. The whole thing, the alleged death of 20 children, wasn't anything more than conjecture, one prong among many in a sweeping initiative to pass gun-control legislation.

Later, Tracy published a lengthy and impossibly confusing timeline that he said supported his claims, because inconsistencies existed between early and late reports. Why the incongruities? asked Tracy. What were they hiding?

Tracy is everything that is wrong with media critique. By peddling conspiracy theories as academic currency, he's achieved some modicum of notoriety, and has proceeded to mop it up, going on radio specials and Tweeting everything out to his 117 loyal followers. "I am doing what we should be doing as academics," Tracy said. Well really, no, you're not.

For someone as ostensibly intelligent as he, he's apparently quite clouded with confirmation bias, and any discrepancy between reports can only mean -- idea explosion! -- a mass-media conspiracy.

OF COURSE.

Journalists capable of exercising a modest degree of autonomy and personal insight would have clearly recognized such leads, thereby extending them to a more rigorous examination of law enforcement spokespersons and the broader Newtown community. Instead, the news media once again wholly abdicated any such responsibility to serve the public by unquestioningly parroting official pronouncements and carefully instructing their audiences on exactly how to interpret the event.



Again, Tracy is everything that is wrong with media critique. The worst kind analyze how journalists put together their stories without ever having been one. Their mission is to break the code. Prove once and for all that journalists take directives from THE MEDIA.

Tracy got his PhD in media studies from the University of Iowa in 2002. I wasn't surprised to see this. I also went there myself, earning an undergrad degree in journalism. While there are many great things about Iowa's journalism school, one of them, unfortunately, is that it teems with academics, not journalists.

All of them are indisputably smart -- perhaps a little smart for their own good. An unsettling number of classes there analyze media currents, discerning injections of "tacit framing" and "corporate underpinnings" in every news article. And this, frankly, isn't true.

Here's what is: 20 children were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary. This was a tragedy beyond words. There wasn't any media-government conspiracy to push gun control legislation; conversation on the issue began organically. (Because, if such a conspiracy had been in the works, why hadn't it happened after Columbine, or Virginia Tech, or Aurora?)

And Tracy's work isn't academic. It's blogging. There's a difference.

 

 
 

Yeah, let's forget about YouTube, Moons, and concentrate on the news as reported by the main stream media and compare their reports. Even when that happens it's never good enough for some, there always has to be some conspiracy behind it all. If you find a credible YouTube that supports a conspiracy in Newtown, do let us know.  I don't surf the net 24/7 viewing YouTubes so I will miss it.

A Florida college professor who blogged that the Sandy Hook school massacre may have been staged — or didn't happen at all — is an "embarrassment" who should be fired from the public university where he teaches, said the top official in the grief-stricken Connecticut town where 20 children and six adults were gunned down last month.

James Tracy, an associate professor of media history at Florida Atlantic University, made the bizarre claims in a series of posts on his personal blog, memoryholeblog.com. Although the school distanced itself from Tracy, who has also doubted the official versions of the JFK assassination, 9/11 and even the more recent movie massacre in Aurora, Colo., Newtown First Selectman E. Patricia Llodra said the conspiracy theorist has no business drawing a taxpayer-funded paycheck.

"Shame on you, too, FAU, to even have someone like this on your payroll," Llodra, herself a former teacher and school administrator, told FoxNews.com in an email. "Professor Tracy is an embarrassment to me as an educator and should be to you as well. I can assure you, sadly, that the events here in Newtown unfolded exactly as are being reported, with the horrible outcome of the violent death of 26 innocent people, including 20 children.

"It is outrageous and an insult to all caring people to think that this man would chose this event as a stage for his outlandish conspiracy theories," she added, calling his statements "wrong, inconsiderate and insensitive."

 

Haven't these parents and the community been hurt enough?

- Newtown First Selectman E. Patricia Llodra

 

Tracy, who did not return calls seeking comment on Tuesday, told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel he considers his conspiracy-mongering a scholarly endeavor.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/08/florida-professor-questions-newtown-shooting-massacre-calls-for-more/#ixzz2HUNGpYqB

Blitzen!!!!

Yes, the crazies, they waste our valuable time and resourses too, with all this snipe hunting. 

Bee, if we wanted to spend 24/7 surfing the net, I'm pretty sure it would result in learning that every one of these lunatic fringe conspiracy theories is the result of paranoid bloggers or YouTubes made by anonymous people or other bloggers who get their kicks by promoting crazy train fear mongering.