Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Terror in the Skies, Again?
I spent the first half of my shift reading the above article. It's an interesting, if not quick, read.
It starts off with an editor's message :
Note from the E-ditors: You are about to read an account of what happened during a domestic flight that one of our writers, Annie Jacobsen, took from Detroit to Los Angeles. The WWS Editorial Team debated long and hard about how to handle this information and ultimately we decided it was something that should be shared. What does it have to do with finances? Nothing, and everything. Here is Annie's story.
and damned if it doesn't get worse from there. It's worth reading if you have a few minutes to spare.
And if you're able you should check out this follow up article by Annie Jacobsen and this rebuttal article written by a pilot posted at salon.com.
You can gain day access to Salon by watching a quick 2 minute commercial. It's worth it for a magazine that's as well written as Salon is. I keep wishing there was a northern based website that was similar in style and content.
Jacobsen believes that what she witness was a dry run for a terrorist attack. That's not the surprising thing, what's surprising is that 89% of the people who have visited the site and taken the poll : Do you think Annie Jacobsen's flight was a "dry run"? agree with her.
I spent the first half of my shift reading the above article. It's an interesting, if not quick, read.
It starts off with an editor's message :
Note from the E-ditors: You are about to read an account of what happened during a domestic flight that one of our writers, Annie Jacobsen, took from Detroit to Los Angeles. The WWS Editorial Team debated long and hard about how to handle this information and ultimately we decided it was something that should be shared. What does it have to do with finances? Nothing, and everything. Here is Annie's story.
and damned if it doesn't get worse from there. It's worth reading if you have a few minutes to spare.
And if you're able you should check out this follow up article by Annie Jacobsen and this rebuttal article written by a pilot posted at salon.com.
You can gain day access to Salon by watching a quick 2 minute commercial. It's worth it for a magazine that's as well written as Salon is. I keep wishing there was a northern based website that was similar in style and content.
Jacobsen believes that what she witness was a dry run for a terrorist attack. That's not the surprising thing, what's surprising is that 89% of the people who have visited the site and taken the poll : Do you think Annie Jacobsen's flight was a "dry run"? agree with her.
# posted by Die Brucke @ 9:21 AM 
