[spectre] CNN says Reuters footage is "authentic"

[Julie]

Thanks, Inke!

At 3:46 PM +0200 9/22/01, Inke Arns wrote:
>[Still haven't checked the Reuters or the CNN websites for information,
>just cleaning up my mailbox after a three-week lecture trip through India
>... Greetings from Berlin, Inke]
>
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>Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 19:27:03 +0200
>To: Arpad.Ajtony@printemps.uvsq.fr
>From: iput@c3.hu (St.Auby Tamas)
>
>(CNN asks that you copy and e-mail this statement to whomever asks about it=
=2E)
>
>There is absolutely no truth to the information that is now distributed on
>the Internet that CNN used 10-year-old video when showing the celebrating
>of some Palestinians in East Jerusalem after the terror attacks in the U.S.
>The video was shot that day by a Reuters camera crew. CNN is a client of
>Reuters and like other clients, received the video and broadcast it.
>Reuters officials have publicly made the facts clear as well.
>
>The allegation is false. The source of the allegation has withdrawn it and
>apologized. It was started by a Brazilian student who now says he
>immediately posted a correction once he knew the information was not true.
>This is the statement by his university -- UNICAMP -- Universidad Estatal
>de Campinas-Brasil.
>
>Again, please read this -- and copy it -- and send it to anyone you know
>who may have the false information. Thank you.
>
>
>
>OFFICIAL STATEMENT by Universidad de Campinas-Brasil
>
>17/09/01
>
>UNICAMP (Universidad Estatal de Campinas-Brasil) would like to announce
>that it has no knowledge of a videotape from 1991, whose images supposedly
>aired on CNN showing Palestinians celebrating the terrorist attacks in the
>U.S. The tape was supposedly from 1991, and there were rumors that the
>images were passed off as current.
>
>This information was later denied, as soon as it proved false, by M=E1rcio =
A.
>V. Carvalho, a student at UNICAMP. He approached the administration today,
>17.09.2001, to clarify the following:
>
>-- the information he got, verbally, was that a professor from another
>institution (not from UNICAMP) had the tape;
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>-- he sent the information to a discussion group e-mail list;
>
>-- many people from this list were interested in the subject and requested
>more details;
>
>-- he again contacted the person who first gave him the information and the
>person denied having the tape;
>
>-- the student immediately sent out a note clarifying what happened to the
>people from his e-mail list.
>
>The original message, however, was distributed all over the world, often
>with many distortions, including a falsified by-line article from the
>student. He affirms that a hacker attacked his domain. Several E-mails have
>been sent on his behalf and those dating from 15.09.2001 should be ignored.
>
>Among the distortions is the fact that UNICAMP would be analyzing the tape,
>which is absolutely false. The administration considers this alert
>definitive and will be careful to avoid new rumors.
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