On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> It certainly can't have been Gori.
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> --- On Wed, 8/13/08, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
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>> CNN blamed for using misleading war video
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>> American broadcaster CNN has been accused of using the
>> wrong pictures in their
>> coverage of the conflict in South Ossetia. A Russian
>> cameraman says footage of
>> wrecked tanks and ruined buildings, which was purported to
>> have been filmed in
>> the town of Gori, in fact showed the South Ossetian capital
>> Tskhinvali.
>> Gori was said to be about to fall under the control of the
>> Russian army but the
>> cameraman says the video was actually shot in Tskhinvali,
>> which had been
>> flattened by Georgian shelling.
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>> Aleksandr Zhukov, from the Russiya Al-Yaum channel, said:
>> "When we arrived and
>> news came that Gori was being shelled, I saw my footage. I
>> said: that's not
>> Gori! That's Tskhinvali. Having crawled through the
>> length and breadth of
>> Tskhinvali, I don't need much to tell from which point
>> this or that footage was
>> recorded. I can swear in front of any tribunal. I can point
>> at this location on
>> the map of the town, because I and the cameraman of the
>> Rossiya channel
>> videotaped that."
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>> http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/28880
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