Keep at them...

Impeachment. Accountability. A better world.

DAMN!

I just noticed the BBC recording only starts at 9:16 ...

I was in Europe and watched the second plane hit on BBC WORLD, while the woman-presenter spoke over the pictures, telling us that a small sports-craft had hit WTC1

Hopefully some other media-monitor agency has recorded BBC world from 8:50 to 9:16 ...

Digg is a FRAUD. The below correspondence with Digg
Support reveals this. Digg has some explaining to do.

(IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:02:44 -0800 (PST)
From: "super nova" Add to
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Subject: Suppressed Story On Digg - BBC Reported
Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell
To: feedback@digg.com, abuse@digg.com, press@digg.com,
partners@digg.com

To Whom It May Concern,

It appears Digg is not interested in media democracy.
In your "How Digg Works" section your website states
the following:

"Digg is a digital media democracy. As a user, you
participate in determining all site content by
discovering, selecting, sharing, and discussing the
news, videos, and podcasts that appeal to you."

This is appears to be deceptive. Your company is
purposely suppressing a story that deals with 9/11.
The following story clearly illustrates this:

BBC Reported Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes
Before It Fell

http://digg.com/politics/BBC_Reported_Building_7_Had_Collapsed_20_Minute...

It is now 11:55 A.M. PST. This story was first posted
23 hours and 26 minutes ago. It was made popular 22
hours and 1 minute ago. At the time I am sending this
email it currently has 1,364 Digg's. Despite the fact
that it has this number it is not listed under ANY of
your top story lists. It appears as though it is
listed under both "World and Business" and "Political
News". It is not in the top 10 listing of either of
these sections nor the "All Stories" category. When I
check all three of these categories under the top
stories of the last 24 hours, I see that it is absent.
According to the stories that I see in these sections
and the number of "Digg's" attached to them, it
clearly should be listed in the top ten of all three
of these categories.

This information clearly exposes your company as being
deceptive and a practitioner of censorship. I would
appreciate a prompt response clarifying your reason
for doing this.

Sincerely,

J. A. Simon

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:09:22 -0800
From: "digg support" Add to
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To: "super nova"
Subject: Re: Suppressed Story On Digg - BBC Reported
Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell

That story was reported as lame and subsequently
removed by the digg community. Please review our FAQ
(digg.com/faq) for more information on the
promotion/burial of stories.

--digg support

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:21:04 -0800 (PST)
From: "super nova" Add to
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Subject: Re: Suppressed Story On Digg - BBC Reported
Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell
To: "digg support"

Digg Support -

Why was this story reported as "lame"? It has a high
number of Digg's. 1,364 Digg's at the time of my
e-mail. Does this not indicate that a large number of
people do not consider this story to be "lame"? All
this shows is that your site is a deceptive farce and
you practice censorship. Do you not find the fact that
the BBC was reporting the collapse of WTC-7 as having
already occurred while it is still standing behind the
very reporting who is saying this the least bit
newsworthy? She was reporting this a full twenty
minutes before it occurred!

On the Digg website it states that you practice "Media
Democracy". This obviously is an outright lie. This
exposes your company as a fraud. Digg has no
credibility.

- J. A. Simon

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:27:12 -0800
From: "digg support" Add to
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To: "super nova"
Subject: Re: Suppressed Story On Digg - BBC Reported
Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell

This is just how the system works. This is
crowd-generated media.
There was a high number of diggs with very low karma
and a high number of buries from users with very high
karma. There is no conspiracy, there is no abuse, the
buries happened from veteran users on digg with proven
track records.

We do understand your concerns, however. In the
future we may include a feature that allows users to
view buried stories and vote to re-instate them. But
we do not manually re-instate stories as that
undermines the decisions of the digg community.
Sometimes good stories get buried and bad stories get
promoted. This is what happens with user-controlled
content. But it's also what sets us apart from the
pack, the users decide the relevance of stories, not
gatekeepers.

--digg support

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:45:21 -0800 (PST)
From: "super nova" Add to
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Subject: Re: Suppressed Story On Digg - BBC Reported
Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell
To: "digg support"

Digg Support-

It is now 12:39 P.M. PST. the original story now
has1,385 Digg's. This is produced by user's digging it
and users burying it. Is this not how it works for all
of the news items you have on your site? How and why
is this any different? The fact that it has 1,385
Digg's means it should be a top story despite what
your ridiculous excuse is. In the how it works section
Digg does not mention the method that your have just
explained to me. Digg has been exposed as a fraud.

- J.A. Simon

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:57:10 -0800
From: "digg support" Add to
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To: "super nova"
Subject: Re: Suppressed Story On Digg - BBC Reported
Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell

You do realize that even while stories are buried the
direct link stays active, right? I'm telling you the
specific reasons WHY and HOW the story were buried.
USERS bury stories. And how they we able to bury a
story with a high amount of diggs is because the
diggers had low karma while the buries had very high
karma.

--digg support

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:16:24 -0800 (PST)
From: "super nova" Add to
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Subject: Re: Suppressed Story On Digg - BBC Reported
Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell
To: "digg support"

Digg Support-

This is getting ridiculous. I see Digg makes up their
method as they see fit. Your "How Digg Works" section
does not mention the following being used in the
system:

"....story was reported as lame"

"...high number of diggs with very low karma and a
high number
of buries from users with very high karma."

"....buries happened from veteran users on digg with
proven track records."

"....And how they we able to bury a story with a high
amount of diggs is because the diggers had low karma
while the buries had very high karma."

This is what is says on "How Digg Works

(copied and pasted from the Digg website)

How Digg Works

Digg is a digital media democracy. As a user, you
participate in determining all site content by
discovering, selecting, sharing, and discussing the
news, videos, and podcasts that appeal to you.

Discover
Discover media online. Find an article, video, or
podcast online and submit it to Digg.com. Your
submission will immediately appear in “Upcoming
Stories,” where other members can find it and, if they
like it, Digg it.

Get popular. Once a submission has earned a critical
mass of Diggs, it becomes “popular” and jumps to the
homepage in its category. If it becomes one of the
most popular, it qualifies as a “Top 10” (If a
submission doesn’t receive enough Diggs within a
certain time period, it eventually falls out of the
“Upcoming” section.)

Discover media on Digg. Visit the “Upcoming” section
to discover recently added news, videos, and podcasts.
Track submissions as they come in with Swarm or Stack,
our realtime Flash visualization tools. Or use Spy to
watch the titles and descriptions as they roll down
the page.

Of course, you can always check the topic homepages to
see what’s newly popular. And you can subscribe to RSS
feeds of particular topics, popular/upcoming sections,
individual users, and the search terms of your choice.

Select
Digg. Participate in the collaborative editorial
process by Digging the stuff that you like best. As
you Digg, you contribute to the count on any given
item. You also build a profile of Diggs that your
friends can view.

Bury. If you find stories with bad links, off-topic
content, or duplicate entries, click “Bury.” That’s
how we get the spam out of the system.

Share
Email your friends (Diggers or non-Diggers) when you
find something you Digg.

Build a friend list; then your friends can track what
you’re Digging. They can also subscribe to an RSS feed
of your submissions and/or your Diggs.

Discuss
Comment. Share your opinions by commenting on stories,
videos, and podcasts.

I do not see any of the reasons you explained as
fitting in the the method as described above. Are you
a comedian?

P.S. All of our ur correspondence is being posted on
blogg.

- J.A. Simon

Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:14:39 -0800
From: "digg support" Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
To: "super nova"
Subject: Re: Suppressed Story On Digg - BBC Reported Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell

We definitely understand your concerns. We urge you to read the
programmer's website where he admits that the information is not 100%
accurate and ultimately states in a digg comment that 3 out of 4 times
the data is completely wrong:

(programmer's website) http://www.lemieuxster.com/digg/expose/
(comment of inaccurate data)
http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Bury_Brigade_Exists_and_Here_s_My_Proof#c5...

The following digg story may also shed some light on the situation:
http://digg.com/design/Visualization_A_Day_of_Diggs_and_a_Thin_Blue_Line

We have also confirmed independently on each of these stories that the
data is more than 75% inaccurate. The sample size also only covers 2
hours with 1700 or so buries. That isn't enough. However, we do
understand your concerns and are looking into the issue. Thank you for
understanding.

--digg support