CNN USING 1991 FOOTAGE of celebrating
Palistinians to manipulate you (english) by Marcio 10:32pm Wed Sep 12 ¿01 I¿d
like to add some ideas from here, down south
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CNN USING 1991 FOOTAGE of celebrating Palistinians
to manipulate you (english) by Marcio 10:32pm Wed Sep 12 ¿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 Finally, I¿d like to say that we all regret and
condemn all that hashappened 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 helped 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, preoccupied 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, the 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. Listen, I¿m NOT justifying the terrorist actions
that took place in your country; but it seems to me that, if your leaders had
come along another path of thoughts and actions, you wouldn¿t be suffering
what you are now. Best regards, and the hope that everything is resolved for the best of all of us Márcio A. V. Carvalho State University of Campinas - Brazil |
Statement from Eason Jordan, CNN¿s chief news
executive: "CNN rejects as baseless and ridiculous an
allegation claiming CNN televised 10-year-old videotape to illustrate
Palestinians celebrating in the wake of the horrific September 11 tragedies
in the United States. My colleagues and I applaud the UNICAMP for setting the
record straight." The videotape in question was shot in East
Jerusalem by a Reuters TV camera crew on September 11. Reuters TV can provide
confirmation. Below is the statement from the university where
the student who authored the email attends. Should you wish to follow up with
the school you can call Universidad Estatal de Campinas-Brasil directly. As you can see from the very candid statement from
the university -- there is no basis in fact at all for this rumor.
UNICAMP would like to announce that has no
knowledge of a videotape from 1991, whose images supposedly aired on CNN
showing Palestinians celebrating the terrorist attacks in the U.S. The tape
was supposedly from 1991, and there were rumors that the images were passed
off as current. This information was later denied, as soon as it
proved false, by Márcio A. V. Carvalho, a student at UNICAMP. He approached
the administration today, 17.09.2001, to clarify the following:
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