Paul, I couldn't watch the video on my computer so I checked out the stills - note that these are accredited - lower right hand corner - to Associated Press (surprise surprise). Anyway, Rakesh deserves all the kudos for: (a) following up on the original question and (b) providing an excellent illustration of the way that selective images are used to support breaking news stories (btw, I agree with you that a cynical manipulation of 'truth' is worse than using old footage; this is exactly the point that Rakesh and I were trying to make). comradely Nicky ----------------------------------- At 10:43 8/10/01 -0400, you wrote: >Nicola and Allin, > >I have returned and notice the message below from Rakesh. Shortly after >its date I could not get any more messages as my email became full from >another's person's recyclyed virsus. Therefore I don't know if either of >you responded to Rakesh's forwarded message which actually is perhaps even >worse than using old footage (which had been the center of this >controvery). As I see it, the issue Chai-on first raised is reintroduced. > >Thanks, Paul Z. > >************************************************************************* >Paul Zarembka, editor, RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY at >********************** http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:00:39 -0700 (PDT) >From: Rakesh Bhandari <rakeshb@stanford.edu> >Reply-To: ope-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu >To: ope-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu >Subject: [OPE-L:6020] staged, not recycled, footage? > > >sent to me by a palestinian friend of mine. RB > > >>---------- >>from Indy Media: >>"Celebrating Palestinians": Scene WAS ACTUALLY staged (english) >>by Juergen 3:02am Tue Sep 25 '01 (Modified on 3:54am Tue Sep 25 '01) >> >>"A few days ago a Brazilian student, Marcio, claimed CNN was showing old >>scenes of celebrating Palestinians, claiming they were celebrating the >>WTC disaster. Well, the scenes were not old, but were manipulated! >> >>"In a recent statement CNN insisted that the famous footage was shot on >>the day of the WTC blast. Meanwhile, German reporters of the prestigious >>"Panorama" TV magazine investigated how the scenes were shot. What they >>found out was amazing. On German TV they aired, supposedly for the first >>time, parts of the entire 4-minute footage not previously shown. >> >>"It became clear that a person was animating a couple of children to >>cheer in front of the camera. The woman cheering was offered a candy to act >>cheerful. She later said she was shocked that her pictures were shown in >>the context of the terrorist attacks. She had no idea what they were for. A >>total view of the scene shows a street largely full of at best apathic >>people doing business as usual. Only a handful of people standing in >>front of the camera are celebrating. >> >>"You can see the video online on >>http://www.ndrtv.de/panorama/sendung/index.html The link is below the >>second picture and in German. But you can still see the pictures in the >>report. Forward to 7 minutes 45 seconds and watch it until the end. >> >>"Furthermore, the highly regarded German magazine "Der Spiegel" has had >>an article on this. The article shows the picture of the woman getting >>candy and another one people showing more people in the background of the >>cheering kids. These people are passing by as usual. >> >>"Read the article on: >>http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,158625,00.html >>Unfortunately, in German as well. You can still see the pictures, >>though." >> >>Here's a little synapses of the article in Der Spiegel (titled "What is >>the truth?"): >> >>Der Spiegel reports on the analysis conducted by Panorama. They point >>out that the pictures that went around the world only showed close-ups, >>never the whole street full of people celebrating. What Panorama found out, >>when watching the whole thing, was that there were shots of the street >>surrounding the cheering groups. These shots indicated that there were >>only a handful of people cheering while the majority of people passed by >>without participating (the second picture in the Spiegel article shows >>that). > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 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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