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A Florida college professor is stirring controversy with his claims that last month’s Newtown, Conn., school shootings did not happen as reported — or may not have happened at all.
James Tracy, a professor at Florida Atlantic University, has said in radio interviews and on his blog that trained “crisis actors” may have been employed by President Barack Obama’s administration in an effort to drum up public support for gun control, the Sun Sentinel reported.
“As documents relating to the Sandy Hook shooting continue to be assessed and interpreted by independent researchers, there is a growing awareness that the media coverage of the massacre of 26 children and adults was intended primarily for public consumption to further larger political ends,” writes Tracy, a tenured associate professor of media history at FAU and a former union leader, the newspaper reported.
In another post, he says, “While it sounds like an outrageous claim, one is left to inquire whether the Sandy Hook shooting ever took place — at least in the way law enforcement authorities and the nation’s news media have described.”….Read more
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