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Stephen Philion Lecturer/PhD Candidate Department of Sociology 2424 Maile Way Social Sciences Bldg. # 247 Honolulu, HI 96822
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Brenda Rosser wrote:
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 6:45 PM
> Subject: Does CNN manufacture News ?
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > It's simply irresponsible to show images such as
> > those.
> >
> > Russell Grossman
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