Can anybody there help clarify or verify any of this??
MC
>Propaganda Watch
>CNN Used 1991 Film To Incite Against Palestinians
>Posted: 26 Jamad-u-Thani 1422, 14 September 2001
>CNN showed Palestinians cheering the death and destruction of 11
September.
>The scenes were repeated throughout the day and around the world to sow
>hatred against the "callous" Palestinians.
>Now it turns out that it used footage from 1991 and just claimed that
it
was
>today's footage. A contributor to CounterPunch
><http://www.counterpunch.org/carvalho.html> (edited by Alexander
Cockburn)
>reports that he and his colleagues had compared this tape with one from
1991
>showing Palestinian cheering, and found them to be identical. Here are
>excerpts from that letter by Marcio A. V. Carvalho at State University
of
>Campinas - Brazil:
>"All around the world we are subjected to 3 or 4 huge news
distributors,
and
>one of them - as you well know - is CNN. Very well, I guess all of you
have
>been seeing (just as I've been) images from this company. In
particular,
one
>set of images called my attencion: the Palestinians celebrating the
bombing,
>out on the streets, eating some cake and making funny faces for the
camera.
>Well, THOSE IMAGES WERE SHOT BACK IN 1991! Those are images of
Palestinians
>celebrating the invasion of Kuwait! It's simply unacceptable that a
>super-power of communications as CNN uses images which do not
correspond to
>the reality in talking about so serious an issue.
>A teacher of mine, here in Brazil, has videotapes recorded in 1991,
with
the
>very same images; he's been sending emails to CNN, Globo (the major TV
>network in Brazil) and newspapers, denouncing what I myself classify as
a
>crime against the public opinion. If anyone of you has access to this
kind
>of files, search for it. In the meanwhile, I'll try to 'put my hands'
on a
>copy of this tape.
>But now, think for a moment about the impact of such images. Your
people
are
>hurt, emotionally fragile, and this kind of broadcast have very high
>possibility of causing waves of anger and rage against Palestinians.
It's
>simply irresponsible to show images such as those."
>Marcio A. V. Carvalho State University of Campinas - Brazil.
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