By now, as most AE911Truth supporters are aware, the ReThink911 campaign ran a billboard ad directly across the street from the NY Times Building for two months. It asked the self-proclaimed “Paper of Record,” ‘Where is your story on the collapse of Building 7?’ The massive sign, which also points out that over 2,000 architects and engineers cite evidence of the controlled demolition of Building 7, was called to the attention of New York Times reporters and employees, and (an estimated) 100,000+ passersby, as memorialized in our incisive two-minute video starring one of our top AE911Truth Action Group leaders – Austin Farwell.

Farwell has been working with AE911Truth as a volunteer since he moved to New York in 2012. He was one of the many activists hitting the street in New York City, and a key part of the events surrounding the NY Times Billboard Campaign. “It was a great experience filming that day,” Farwell said. “I was so pumped to see people really getting into conversations with staff from the NY Times and articulately stating our case. The key is outreach, exposure and creativity. There are so many smart, encouraging people involved with this grass roots group. We have centralized our arguments and have become a concerted voice.”

This video exposes the New York Times’ abdication of responsibility to cover the challenges being made to the official account of Building 7’s destruction. Watch and share the videoAn open letter to the NY Times

“The ReThink911 campaign has erected a billboard across the street from your headquarters to call your attention to the evidence, cited by over 2,000 architects and engineers, that proves World Trade Center Building 7 was brought down by controlled demolition on 9/11. We urge you to look at the evidence—starting with the video footage of the collapse—and publish an editorial stating your position on the challenges being made to the government’s explanation of Building 7’s destruction. The question of what happened to Building 7 is simply too important for the New York Times not to examine in a careful and balanced way. To that end, we urge that your editorial include, but not be limited to, the following information and facts: A link to this 30-second video showing the destruction of Building 7 from four different angles: http://youtu.be/Mamvq7LWqRU. We ask you to provide your readers with the necessary context by embedding this video in the online version of your editorial, or providing the above link. According to the YouGov poll commissioned and released by the ReThink911 campaign in September 2013, 46% of Americans still do not know that a third tower fell on 9/11, and yet 46% of those who see this video footage suspect it was a controlled demolition, compared to only 28% who suspect it was caused by ordinary office fires.

Building 7 underwent absolute free-fall during the first 2.25 seconds of its descent, as admitted, finally, by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in its final report on Building 7. However, NIST’s computer simulation of Building 7’s destruction does not include a period of free-fall. Architects, engineers and scientists who challenge the NIST report state that free-fall could have only been achieved by removing all of the building’s columns simultaneously with explosives.

NIST acknowledged that Building 7’s collapse was the first known instance of a tall building brought down primarily by uncontrolled fires. [Even the] New York Times reported in November 2001 that engineers and other experts were stunned by the collapse. FEMA’s report, published in May of 2002, stated that the cause of Building 7’s collapse still remained unknown, and that “the best hypothesis had only a low probability of occurrence.” And yet, the NYC Office of Emergency Management and others on the scene knew with certainty early in the day that Building 7 would eventually come down. Thank you for your re-consideration of this most important issue. Sincerely, The ReThink911 Campaign Architects Engineers for 9/11 Truth”

Not surprisingly, the Times didn’t reply, as their responsibility seems to be to conceal the truth rather than to reveal it. Rather than being a guardian of the First Amendment and presenting ''All the News That's Fit to Print,” the Times is, apparently, more of a public relations firm for the powers that be, masquerading as a “liberal” free” press all the while promoting an agenda of their own.

Ted Walter was the founder of NYCCAN, Remember Building 7, and the volunteer campaign manager for the ReThink911 ads – putting in hundreds and hundreds of hours to see these successful projects to realizationThe NY Times billboard ad, conceived of by Ted Walter, ReThink911 Campaign Manager, ran from November to December 2013. “The idea," according to Walter, “was to confront the media about their failure to cover the evidence that Building 7 was intentionally destroyed, and all the implications that follow." The effort as proposed resonated with many AE911Truth supporters. As a matter of fact, “We raised $25,000 in three days,” Walter said.

The most prominent feedback from the “Gray Lady of 43rd Street” resulted from a ReThink911 Action Alert involving a call to C-Span’s Washington Journal TV show by “Scott” who asked NY Times Washington Bureau Correspondent David Sanger why the NY Times was avoiding the ReThink911 issue altogether. However, Sanger continued the Times’ avoidance policy, claiming that “…we’ve not found any evidence so far to suggest that the building collapses were caused by anything other than the two airplanes that flew into them.” Sound familiar? It’s the same type of evasive answer that was provided by NIST which “found no evidence of explosives used at Building 7," but avoided mentioning the fact that they had never actually looked to see if explosives had been used.

For Sanger, a natural follow-up question would have been, “Are you aware that no plane struck Building 7 which came down in free-fall acceleration, and that there is highly credible witness testimony of explosions before Building 7 came down?”

What has been accomplished by the ReThink911 billboard placed prominently in the face of the NY Times? We have made a direct and bold challenge to a bastion of NY corporate media censorship. Every employee in that immense office building knew what we were saying. And every chief editor and officer knew that everyone else in the building knew. About 100,000 other people, that didn’t know before, know now that 2,000 architects & engineers are demanding a new investigation – based on evidence for controlled demolition. And every step forward leads us to justice. We believe that it is just up ahead.

Support us with our next round of the ReThink911 ad campaign as we evolve our strategy and meet targeted groups of people where they do most of their personal and professional work – in their computer.