FWIW: I received this email this AM from a co-worker. I can't confirm its accuracy. If true, it's an interesting side-note. Has anyone else heard this?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 12:08 PM
Subject: FW: FW: CNN Redefines Accurate Journalism
> This may be old news to you all by now, but I thought I'd pass it on.
> in case you haven't seen this...par for the course i say. c
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >
> >From: stephen
> >crowe*
> >
> >To: velscrowe@hotmail.com
> >
> >Sent: 9/17/2001 7:52:57 AM
> >
> >Subject: CNN Redefines Accurate
> >Journalism
> > It has recently been brought to my attention that the footage
> > broadcast by CNN (and other mainstream media) of Palestinians
> > cheering at the WTC explosion, was actually footage shot in 1991
> > during the invasion of Kuwait.
> > Moreover, I heard from a Brazilian student from the State
> > University of Campinas that his professor has the recorded
> >footage
> > when it was originally aired in 1991. I believe that there are
> > currently some efforts that are being made to retrieve it by
> >various
> > anti-war/anti-racist groups.
> > There is also the issue of timing - at the time at which the air
> > attacks occured it was night in Palestine. There is an 11 hour
> > difference. However, in the video it is clearly day> >
> CNN's behavior seems to violate more than just journalistic
> >ethics
> > and reporting. The fact that misleading footage was
> >overwhelmingly
> > aired in a time of intense tragedy begs the question of whether
> >CNN
> > deliberately tried to stir up anti-Arab/Muslim sentiment, before
> >even
> > having evidence of who dunnit. While there were certainly those
> > celebrated the explosions due to the way in which US foreign
> >policy
> > has ruined their lives, I have seen photographs of Muslim
> >children
> > with signs that read 'we grieve with you..we feel your pain..we
> >are
> > victims too.'
> > Jeannie
> >
> >
> > PS below is an interesting message I got.
> > i just attended a peace vigil at stanford, and one of my friends
> > spoke up, adding a dimension to the discussion i'd never heard.
> > he's palestinian and lebanese, and has spent most of his life in
> >the
> > middle east. he talked to his parents shortly after the bombing,
> > and they told him that, far from "celebrating in the streets,"
> >most
> > palestinians are completely terrified about US retaliation. of
> > course, there are some who were happy to hear the news-- there
> >are
> > extremists everywhere. but realistically, they have much more to
> > fear than to celebrate.
> > secondly, and this was the most frightening, he pointed out that,
> > because the time difference between here and the middle east is
> > close to 11 hours (west coast time), it was night time there when
> >the
> > attacks occurred. yet the footage of palestinians "celebrating
> >the
> > terrorist attack" is shot in broad daylight. the media has been
> > playing footage that obviously could not have been shot directly
> > after the incident. this is absolutely terrifying. the news
> > stations have essentially lied to millions of american viewers,
> > assuming 1. that nobody would notice this discrepancy, and 2. that
> >if
> > noticed, nobody would care.
> >--- Julie Kazdon
> >
> >--- begules@earthlink.net
> > |
