Interesting, thanks for sharing (although you should know that it is helpful to use the "link" button in your posts). I promise you I haven't asked anyone to "spoonfeed" me anything, and I searched for news footage extensively when I first saw this film but never found any. Criticize my Google-fu skills if you like, but don't claim I didn't try because that's simply false.
Even now, Googling "philippe petit wtc" brings up many videos, but they are all mixtures of still photos set to music, some with narration and interviews added. IOW, the same thing we find in the film Man on Wire. And while your link is the first actual news report I've seen, it still features no video footage at the scene--which I continue to find curious. Please, spare me repetition of any insistence that he would have been a "spec" (by which I think you mean "speck"). So show the speck! And why would there not be "man on the street" interviews with people gathered below to gawk at the spectacle? That's the most obvious move to make as a news team, and all the major networks and local stations are in close proximity to the scene.
Don't tell me they didn't have enough time: per Wikipedia, "He performed for 45 minutes, making eight passes along the wire, during which he walked, danced, lay down on the wire, and saluted watchers from a kneeling position. Office workers, construction crews and policemen cheered him on."
I'm not saying definitively this was a hoax. I'm saying it was either that, or one of the worst cases of documented journalistic malpractice in modern times, right in the heart of the American TV news media's turf. Either one is a very curious circumstance.
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shurbanm
8 years ago
Sorry but I'm lazy about posting as link. It's either I have to do one more step or you so why should I do it? :)
On the other topic - they would not have gotten any really good footage to show even if they were ready. They would have to be able to pretty much direct the camera vertically and I doubt those cameras were capable of this. The 70s cameras would weigh a hell of a lot and you would not be able to handle it yourself. Not to mention you would end up with jerky video if it's not on a tripod.
They obviously were not able to scramble in time to get helicopter. 45 minutes is not even close to enough time for that. And lastly I doubt the cops would have allowed them to do it considering the hazard.
I think you should be questioning of everything but this is hardly one to question. You are better of questioning 911 and Apollo as there was motive and quite a bit of evidence for foul play.
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GuyOnTheLeft
8 years ago
That's funny that you don't doubt this at all but do doubt Apollo. Just the opposite for me: I have zero doubt the moon landings happened.
You have yet to explain, getting back to our actual subject, why there's no correspondent doing a standup by the WTC, talking to passersby. And let's not forget: there are elevators in that thing! 45 minutes is plenty of time for a news crew to get to an upper floor and point their cameras out the window.
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shurbanm
8 years ago
I do not doubt Apollo landed but I doubt it happened the way it was shown - i.e. that men stepped on the moon. The evidence is overwhelming that they faked footage and there is really no evidence that they did have manned missions to the moon. Rocks can be retrieved by machines (like the soviets did) and retroreflectors can be placed by machines (just like Soviets did).
Yeah there may be elevators but would they be let in. I highly doubt the cops would even allow new screw to approach.
Frankly I am at a loss why you would think this may have not happened considering the overwhelming evidence that it did yet you believe apollo took men to the surface of the moon - which has little evidence for and the evidence that there is actually points to forgery in a lot of cases. With Apollo there is motive. With this one there would be no motive other than maybe Jean Philip's and he could hardly convince all these participants to assist in the con.
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GuyOnTheLeft
8 years ago
Okay, this conversation has taken a very weird turn. I will leave it at that.
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shurbanm
8 years ago
Thinking that JP didn't walk on the wire is what is weird.
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crabapple-78-122646
8 years ago
These days it's about 25% based on polls done in US think that Apollo didn't put men on the moon. I would bet that overseas it's much higher. 9/11 is probably much higher that think that official story is bogus. Considering we were lied to about Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, The Maine, The Lusitania it is nothing out of the ordinary.
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