On 9/11/09, ReOpen911 France posted its video rebuttal to France's top cable tv station Canal+'s hit piece "Jeudi Investigation", a 60 Minutes type program but without the journalistic integrity which aired in April 2008. Posted on Friday, the video has already had over 18,500 views!

11 Septembre: Un Jeudi Noir de l'Information
par ReOpen911

The 9/11 Truth Movement in France is propelled by ReOpen911.info, the French-language website for info into the attacks. The site gets thousands of hits per day and has started to gain some notoriety, which is a blessing and a curse in disguise. We get contacted by journalists preparing pieces on this or that and they need a comment, or some footage or whatever. We oblige, open our doors, answer their questions, give them what they've told us they need. Only to see them disappear and then reappear with the result which is usually a report that does not accurately reflect who we are or what the 9/11 Truth Movement is all about.

The group here in Paris has just published a video rebuttal to an unusually dishonest hit piece that aired on one of France's largest tv stations, Canal+ in April (2008). The show was called "Jeudi Investigation" (Investigation Thursday). ReOpen911 published its film, "11 Septembre: Jeudi Noir de l'Information" (September 11: Black Thursday for Information) in DailyMotion on Friday, September 11. In less that 48 hours, it has already had over 18,500 views.

More than just a simple response, this is essentially a documentary which carefully dismantles the "hit" report, point by point. This video takes the information taken out of context and puts it back where it came from so the viewer can see how the "investigative journalist" is consciously manipulating the info and thus the viewer's perception. The video shows how the "invesigative journalist" purposely mixes up comments, works, and dates, so that when we see, for example, David Ray Griffin saying he thanks Eric Hufschmid for his contributions, and onscreen we also see EH with his purple crown and learn he is a self-proclaimed anti-semite, the viewer is led to believe DRG must be an anti-semite or a nutcase or a nice mix of both. This video rebuttal reestablishes the context so people understand both the truth and the efforts being made to hide it by the "investigative journalist".

The video runs 55 minutes and is mostly in French. Some parts are in English and subtitled in French. Maybe you have friends who speak French who could watch it with you. Whatever the case, I suggest you take a look at it. They play a bit from the hit report aired, then dismantle it carefully presenting the facts, plain and simple. The comments posted so far have all been positive!

ReOpen911 released the video on Friday for another reason. The same dynamic duo that produced the hit piece was about to air another one that evening, in honor of 8th anniversary of Sept 11. I haven't watched the new one. I can do without with the déjà vu.

Peace.