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From: lars brinkmann <lars.brinkmann@gmx.at>
To: monochrome list <bagasch@monochrom.at>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 3:12 AM
Subject: [monochrom] Media Control


> Laut M=E1rcio A. V. Carvalho, State University of Campinas, Brasilien,
> stammen die auf CNN gezeigten Szenen von jubelnden Pal=E4stinensern aus=
 dem
> Jahr 1991 - Ich habe  nirgendwo einen Beweis f=FCr diese  Behauptungen
> gefunden, nur eine andere Site, auf der dasselbe Posting zu finden ist.=
..
>
> Quelle:
>
> http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3D63454&group=3Dwebcast
>
> bzw.
>
> http://www.watership.org
>
>
> (...) 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 called my attencion: the
> Palestinians celebrating the bombing, out on the streets, eating some c=
ake
> 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 cumminications as CNN uses images
> which do not correspond to the reality in talking about so serious an
> issue.
>
> A teacher of mine, here in Brazil, has videotapes recorded in 1991, wit=
h
> the very same images; he's been sending emails to CNN, Globo (the
> major TV network in Brazil) and newspapers, denouncing what I myself
> classify as a crime against the public opinion. If anyone of you has
access
> to this kind of files, serch for it. In the meanwhile, I'll try to 'put=
 my
> hands' on a copy of this tape. (...)
>
>
> Dazu ein Leserkommentar:
>
> I cannot confirm the validity of the 1991/2001 CNN Palestinian celebrat=
ion
> accusation, but I would not put it past them. Remember the "baby
incubator"
> testimony created by a prominent public-relations firm to garner suppor=
t
for
> the Gulf War? These "celebrations" may well be rehashed from old footag=
e
or
> a packaged "news item" from an anti-Palestinian group. Pictures of the
> "celebrations" were also featured in newspapers around the country. The
> sooner we get on establishing the facts surrounding the footage the
better.
> Any ideas?
>