Peter Murdoch is a former journalist and the current vice-president of the media division for the Communication, Energy and Paperworkers Union, the representative organization of more than 20,000 Canadian journalists. Peter and CEP were reported in the Globe & Mail recently as being perplexed by Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, or CRTC, attempts to codify media deception in this country.

 

In an time when media credibility is being questioned like never before, who on earth would wish to undermine that fragile commodity further? Or as Peter Murdoch asks; “Where is the motivation for change that would lower the standards of truth and fairness in broadcast journalism?”

Peter Murdoch and introducing "fair and balanced" American style to Canadian broadcasting in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to relate her

reacquainting with the streets of our fair city, and the goings on therein and beyond. But first, Werner Simbeck and knocking down the persistent myths behind the 9/11 attacks.

 

Well, do you believe it? Nearly ten years after the fall of the Twin Towers there remain unanswered questions that put into doubt the official story. The issue is not academic; the 9/11 attacks in the United States served as catalyst for sweeping changes in the way we live our lives, and those changes are continuing apace. If you doubt the immense knock-on effects of that single day in September 2001, take a virtual tour of one of the myriad security corporations that have proliferated contagion-like since, or just take a walk through an airport. Those with the temerity to voice their doubts of the "accepted" version of "The Day that Changed Everything' have been, by turn, dismissed as "conspiracy nuts," denigrated as simpletons, and demonized as traitors. Some of the more prominent, and credible, of them found themselves isolated socially, and marginalized professionally. They have been driven from their jobs, harassed, and suffered death threats. Clearly, it's an issue that strikes an ominous chord that resonates through the modern body politic.   

Werner Simbeck believes there is much more to the 9/11 story than so far reported from official quarters. Simbeck is a mechanical engineer, and is a signator of the petition sponsored by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, an international collection of like-minded professionals who calculate the official September 11th story does not compute. Werner Simbeck in the first half.

And; how are lies promulgated? Not the white ones, or kind ones, or the devious little ones told by children caught with hands in cookie jars, but the great falsehoods that allow injustice erode entire nations; how are the pernicious kinds a falsehoods, those famously described simply as "Big" perpetuated? In today's world of ubiquitous instant communications technologies, almost any of us can, as Mark Twain observed a century ago, send a lie traveling around the world six times before the truth gets its boots on; but it takes dedication to keep a good lie going strong, and for that you need the resources of a news corporation, or the state; or better yet, with a news corporation and the state together.

Peter Murdoch (no relation) is a former journalist and the current vice-president of the media division for the Communication, Energy and Paperworkers Union, the representative organization of more than 20,000 Canadian journalists. Peter and CEP were reported in the Globe & Mail recently as being perplexed by Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, or CRTC, attempts to codify media deception in this country. In an time when media credibility is being questioned like never before, who on earth would wish to undermine that fragile commodity further? Or as Peter Murdoch asks; “Where is the motivation for change that would lower the standards of truth and fairness in broadcast journalism?”

Peter Murdoch and introducing "fair and balanced" American style to Canadian broadcasting in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to relate her reaquainting with the streets of our fair city, and the goings on therein and beyond. But first, Werner Simbeck and knocking down the persistent myths behind the 9/11 attacks.