CNN has manufactured footage

Brenda Rosser shelter at tassie.net.au
Sat Sep 22 08:55:51 PDT 2001


Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 6:45 PM Subject: Does CNN manufacture News ?


> This claims to come from the BBC.
>
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> 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 caught my attention:
> the Palestinians celebrating the bombing, out on
> the streets, eating celebration sweets 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
> communications as CNN uses images which do not
> correspond to the reality in talking about
> so serious of an issue.
>
> At the BBC here, we have these footages on videotapes
> recorded in 1991, with the very same images. But now,
> think for a moment about the impact of such images.
> Your people are hurt, emotionally fragile, and this
> kind of broadcast has very high possiblity of
> causing waves of anger and rage against the
> Palestinians.
>
> It's simply irresponsible to show images such as
> those.
>
> Russell Grossman
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