"fake" footage and rejoicing palestinians

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Sep 15 09:04:15 PDT 2001


Jeffrey Fisher posted:


>fyi, this from the electronicintifada site re: "fake" cnn footage and media
>use of images of celebration.
>
>apologies if i missed this being posted already.
>
>http://electronicintifada.net/new.html
>
>Various rumours circulating on the Internet -- alleging that the Reuters
>footage depicting Palestinians celebrating in the wake of the attacks in the
>U.S. was in fact footage from a different event -- are false. Still images,
>such as the Associated Press image above, were additionally shot by
>photographers from a variety of wire service agencies.
>
>Reuters' International Editor, Anthony Williams, confirmed to The Electronic
>Intifada that "This material was shot on Tuesday. The suggestion that it was
>old is false." Mike Hanna, Jerusalem bureau chief of CNN, the media
>organisation named in many versions of the rumour, told us that, "I can
>unequivocally state that the footage shown on CNN of a small group of
>Palestinians "celebrating" was shot by a Reuters crew in East Jerusalem on
>Tuesday. The allegation that it was shot at any other time is contemptible."
<snip>

Thanks for posting this, Jeffrey. I've forwarded it to many lists & individuals.

Yoshie



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