Jaclyn Stine
Professor Goffene
ENGL 121: 8am
23 February 2012
WE#3: Annotated Bibliography
“9/11 Facts.” 301 Moved Permanently. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. <http://tvnewslies.org/html/9_11_facts.html>.
This website is about what was happening with the air planes before 9/11. This website is basically a news article on the internet. They were experiencing in Dick Cheney’s war games to prepare for such events as the 9/11 attack. It explained how the defense mechanisms created for such event failed at the moment of crisis and how this should not have happened. This website will help me understand the points of the 9/11 truthers belief that Dick Cheney or the government had planned for the 9/11 attack to happen. I would use this information to bring evidence to the 9/11 truthers side of my research paper.
“9-11 Was An Inside Job – A Call To True Patriots.” 9-11 Was An Inside Job. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. <http://www.911sharethetruth.com/>.
Basically this website is full of propaganda for the 9/11 Truthers. Though this website does not give much information at the beginning, if you continue down the page it gives a small description of what the organization of 9/11 truthers is trying to do and uncover. There is also a small description on why the Truthers believe it was a cover-up and examples to prove them right. This website will help me understand the 9/11 truthers side a little more and understand their motives more than other websites and books. I want to learn more about the 9/11 truthers motives through this website. This would help me better clarify the motives of the 9/11 truthers in my future research paper.
Davis, Lanny J. Scandal: How “gotcha” Politics Is Destroying America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Print.
In this book the author, Lanny Davis, uses interviews, personal anecdotes, and historical examples to explain the scandals of the United States politics and media. Davis goes into how and why the Watergate scandal came to be and how the next presidents add to the scandal of the United States government. I hope to learn of the governments past scandals and if they could possibly lead up to being as big as the 9/11 attack. This will help me understand the governments side of their past and the story of the 9/11 attack even though this book will not enter into the idea of the event.
Kay, Jonathan. Among the Truthers: A Journey through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground. New York: Harper, 2011. Print.
In this book the author, Jonathan Kay, goes into the 9/11 truthers mind and other conspiracy theorist. Kay used some interviews within the book itself to explain his points. Kay mostly focuses on the 9/11 truthers but goes into other conspiracies throughout the book. He gives the reasons for why people who are in the conspiracy groups are so suspicious of the government and their kept secrets. This book will give me more information about the creations of these conspiracy theories and why they have come to be with in the world. This will help me get a deeper meaning of the views in the 9/11 truthers organization.
Ridgeway, James. “Bush’s 9-11 Secrets.” The Village Voice [New York] 5 Aug. 2003. The Village Voice News. 2012. Web. 28 Feb. 2012. <http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-08-05/news/bush-s-9-11-secrets/>.
This is a website article from The Villagers Voice in the New York Times newspaper. This was from 2003, two years after the 9/11 attack. I found this website through the website http://tvnewslies.org/html/9_11_facts.html. This article is about how Bush and his administration had not given all the information found in the 9/11 attack investigation. It also stated how the government got threats by Osama Bin Laden about planes and that they were going to attack something in the United States but the government disregarded the threats. This informational website will give me information on the governments side of the story of the 9/11 attacks and it will also support the view of the conspiracy theory of the 9/11 truthers.
Turkel, Daniel G. “The Significance of 9/11 Conspiracy Theories in Understanding the Sociopolitical Climate of the 21st Century.” The Significance of 9/11 Conspiracy Theories in Understanding the Sociopolitical Climate of the 21st Century (2010): 1-26. Web. 28 Feb. 2012. <http://danturkel.com/papers/911conspiracies.pdf>.
This article is a scholarly journal/article about the 9/11 attack and the conspiracy theory behind it. This article is in some way against the idea of the 9/11 truthers but gives a logical and descriptive story of the event and of what really happened. The article also goes to describe the Truthers point of view and explains later in the article why their view is not correct. This article will give me some information that is actually against the 9/11 truthers and will allow me to compare each view of the issue for my research paper. I would like to know more about how the government reacted towards this event and how they explain the 9/11 truthers are wrong through this article.
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