Short compilation of 9/11 eyewitnesses: David Long testimony; Peter Damas footage; Joshua Good footage; David Handschuh testimony on History Channel (The Day The Towers Fell, 2002); Clifton Cloud footage.
✦ More info about the subject: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1Dvez5Xnnbn2Dx4xSl0xcbMciMcGwkaxX
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Thomas Jefferson about the newspaper industry on June 11, 1807:
“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time; whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers are just as true a history of any other period of the world as of the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to their fables. General facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will, &c., &c.; but no details can be relied on. I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors."
Source: Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/resource/mtj1.038_0592_0594/?sp=2&st=text)
✦ More info about the subject: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1Dvez5Xnnbn2Dx4xSl0xcbMciMcGwkaxX
_________________________________________________________________________
Thomas Jefferson about the newspaper industry on June 11, 1807:
“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time; whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers are just as true a history of any other period of the world as of the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to their fables. General facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will, &c., &c.; but no details can be relied on. I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors."
Source: Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/resource/mtj1.038_0592_0594/?sp=2&st=text)
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