CNN found using fake footage

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Sep 14 06:15:59 PDT 2001


ppillai at sprint.ca wrote:
>
> >From Counterpunch (Cockburn/St. Clair):
>
> Least credible news footage:
> CNN's videotape of Palestinians supposedly dancing in the streets of a
> West Bank town. CounterPuncher Marcio A.V. Carvalho at the state
> university of Campinas in Brazil tells us that he and his colleagues had
>
> compared this tape with one from 1991 showing Palestinian cheering, and
> found them to be identical.

Look -- if this is true, it will make good agitational material. But I do wish posters would quit reporting it in the form of A says somewhere that B may have said that C has revealed, I guess, that..... You are making leftists look sloppy.

Carrol



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