TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Federal Communications Commission licenses for New York and New Jersey television stations expired on June 1. Applications for license renewal by WABC-7 and by WNYW (FOX5) have been "accepted for filing" but, the license renewal has not yet been granted.

Until the renewal application is granted, the FCC will accept "informal complaints" from residents of the New York City market (i.e., anywhere you can receive New York television stations over the air, including Northern New Jersey).

The procedure is simple. Viewers must send the FCC a complaint detailing the station's breach of the public trust. The complaint should be sent in triplicate (three copies) -- the first with an ink signature, the other two copies of the orginal. The headers should include a reference to the application umber as well as the correct FCC address, thusly:

ATTN: Video Division, License Renewal Processing Team
Room 2-A665
Office of the Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
c/o Natek, Inc.
236 Massachusetts Ave., N.E.
Suite 110
Washington, DC 20002

RE: Station call sign: WABC (Channel 7)
City and State: New York, New York
Station facility Identification number: 1328
License renewal application file number: BRCT-20070201BHD

For the separate complaint regarding FOX5, the last four lines of the header should read:

RE: Station call sign: WNYW (Channel 5)
City and State: New York, New York
Station facility Identification number: 22206
License renewal application file number: BRCT-20070201AJS

The complaints should point out that the station in question may be in violation of the FCC hoax rule, Section 73.1217:

This rule prohibits broadcast licensees or permittees from broadcasting false information concerning a crime or a catastrophe if: (1) the licensee knows this information is false; (2) it is foreseeable that broadcast of the information will cause substantial public harm; and (3) broadcast of the information does in fact directly cause substantial public harm.

If the broadcast of the CGI airplane animations on 9/11 were intentional and known to the management or owners of the station (Disney-ABC and News Corp-Fox), the stations are in breach of the hoax rule because the panic caused by the broadcasts brought about substantial public harm via the resultant overseas conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the expansion of the domestic police state via the USA PATRIOT A Even if the broadcasts were somehow unintentional, the negligence in failing to disclose the falsity of the broadcast at a later date is a breach of the public interest.

Some suggested points to make in the complaints follow.

Regarding WABC-7:
• ABC News reporter Don Dahler reported no plane hit the south tower even as the video feed showed an airplane image and anchor Charlie Gibson from the studio asserted an airplane hit.
  
• The plane image broadcast on WABC was stop-motion across each frame, indicating a computer generated animation. Actual footage of an actual airplane would have revealed "go-motion" blurry images.
  
• WABC-7 helicopter camera operator John DelGiorno has said the helicopter camera system used was an Ultramedia system, yet a WESCAM logo is clearly visible on the camera rig.
  
• DelGiorno claims the WABC7 helicopter was in motion at the time of the South Tower event, yet the WESCAM shot is relatively stationary.
  
• The blackout in the camera feed immediately after the South Tower event.
  
• The 17-second-separated audio anomalies are present on the WABC feed, synchronized to similar anomalies on other feeds.

Points regarding WNYW (FOX5):
• The "nose-out" through the north face of the building indicates a CGI image, particularly since no exit hole was evident on the north face.
  
• The plane image is missing from the wide shot 11 seconds before the South Tower event.
  
• The suspicious blackout in the helicopter feed following the nose-out indicates an attempt at cover-up.
  
• The purging of the footage form the Internet by WNYW is a clear proof that that WNYW is acting against the public interest in denying access to this footage by researchers and the public. WNYW has purged the footage from YouTube and on the Internet Wayback Machine at www.archive.org, WNYW has replaced the video track of the South Tower event with video from CBS (while retaining the original Fox5 audio track).

In dealing with a regulatory agency like the FCC, remember that several individual (even if similar or duplicative) complaints are more powerful than one complaint co-signed by several people. This is an important opportunity for NYC-area activists to have their voice heard and possibly force a response from Disney-WABC-7 and NewsCorp-FOX5-WNYW.

Labels: 9/11, fcc, foxnews, tvfakery

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