Dear Paul, I am going to bed this time too late but I must reply to you before that. It was originally raised at the following site http://www.chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=4395&;group=webcast The site tells as follows. CNN USING 1991 FOOTAGE of celebrating Palistinians to manipulate you by Re-post 2:40am Thu Sep 13 '01 (Modified on 4:06am Thu Sep 20 '01) by Marcio 10:32pm Wed Sep 12 '01 (Modified on 1:27am Thu Sep 13 '01) I'd like to add some ideas from here, down south. There's an important point in the power of press, specifically the power of CNN. 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 cumminications 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, serch 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 is hurt, emotionally fragile, and this kind broadcast have very high possibility of causing waves of anger and rage against Palestinians. It's simply irresponsible to show images such as those. Finally, I'd like to say that we all regret and condemn all that has happened in the last days; but Nikos has a point here. I really don't want to be misunderstood here, but the truth is that US government had shown no respect for other countries in the last decades. In the 60s and 70s they had halped lots of military coups throughout the world (including Brazil in 64). Later, with Reagan and Bush Father, the Washington Consensus have been demolishing the bases of our economies, making us more and more dependant (and, many of us, prehocupied with this situation). Your current president quickly made things worse: Kioto Protocol, Star Wars, Colombia Plan, the exchange of rain forest for pieces of external debt, tha abandonment of the position of third party in negotiations between IRA and England, and between Palestinians and Israel. All those mistakes in US external politics made your country more hatred than before, and, of course, more vulnerable. add your own comments any confirmation? by gwh 12:34pm Thu Sep 13 '01 anyone have any sort of confirmation of the date of the palestinian footage? I know that that footage carried a large impact on those around me. A very serious charge against CNN. Unless CNN can change what time sunset is.... by BethX 12:52pm Thu Sep 13 '01 beth@bethx.com sunset in israel was at 6:50pm on the 11th. israel is 7 hours ahead of EST. if the video was taken around 11pm our time (which seems to be just about the right time). that would make it 6 pm their time and thus... sunset.... NOT around 3pm as some of the videos show. So, either CNN knows how to defy Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion..... Or they reused at least *some* old footage. many comments and respostes follow at the site. chai-on
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