>Other postings (e.g. from Rakesh and Nicola) have said the question >of actual falsification is secondary; the real point is the way the >US media used the video from Nablus to (I'm putting this in my own >words) demonize the Palestinians. No, I didn't say this. I wanted to make the point that news is always *made*. By this I mean that events are threaded together to sell a message to an audience, just as a photographer's still photographs are embedded in the stories that journalists decide to tell back in the world's capitals (irrespective of the original context or caption that may originally have accompanied the gram sent by the photographer). This is not a statement about truth or falsity of the particular film clip in question but a more general statement about the business of making news. As to the message that CNN hoped to convey, I didn't say what that might be because it is still in the making. Privately I can guess, drawing on my own personal experience as a news photographer (which includes covering the 'Gulf War' for the Melbourne Age newpaper). But like you, Allin, I prefer not to speculate in a counter-productive fashion. There are a great many well-documented sources; anyone who wants to find the evidence of a close association between the media and political (capitalist) interests in the making of news will be able to do so without much difficulty. Ps. appologies about the 'Worm' (I think it must have come from my computer as the original source is clean - I will try to do something about it later and in the meantime send from another computer). Comradely Nicky %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Nicola Mostyn (Taylor) Faculty of Economics Murdoch University South Street Murdoch W.A. 6150 Australia Tel. 61 8 9385 1130 email: n.taylor@stu.murdoch.edu.au %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%|
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