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To: Win Smith who wrote (1303)	9/25/2001 1:05:24 AM
From: tekboy	Respond to of 281500

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To: Win Smith who wrote (1303)	9/25/2001 1:06:56 AM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

oh, puhleeeeze....that's Stern of the Hitler diaries, right? nytimes.com New York Times September 24, 2001 THE RUMOR A False Challenge to News Photos Takes Root on the Web By FELICITY BARRINGER The Associated Press Despite verification by news agencies, messages are circulating on the Internet challenging images of Palestinians celebrating the attacks on the United States. The day after the World Trade Center attacks, Márcio A. V. Carvalho, a Brazilian graduate student at the University of Campinas, sent an e-mail message to a list of fellow sociologists. In it, he claimed that after the attack, CNN had recycled 1991 images, misidentifying the footage as a picture of a few Palestinians celebrating the terrorist attack in New York. Since then, the film's authenticity has been verified by both CNN and Reuters, whose cameraman took the images in East Jerusalem. But the bogus story has taken root around the world. The e-mail message was forwarded to tens of thousands of people on a respected Internet mailing list run by David Farber, a Web elder statesman and a University of Pennsylvania computer science professor who routinely passes on messages he finds interesting, along with rebuttals as warranted. It reached Brandeis University and the University of California at San Francisco. Nigel Pritchard, a spokesman for CNN International, fielded queries from several nations. But his denials never stopped the queries from coming. A recantation by Mr. Carvalho — speaking through his university's public relations office — has not stopped the e-mail. In fact, Mr. Carvalho is irrelevant now — his words are circulating over the purported signature of Russell Grossman, the head of Internal Communication at the BBC in London. Through a spokesman, Mr. Grossman said he never sent such a message. And a close reader of the two versions may have wondered why a Brazilian student and a British news executive used identical, slightly ungrammatical language, including this sentence: "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." The persistence of the e-mail message trying to discredit the Reuters footage may just reflect the Internet's power. Still, a second videotape of celebrations in the West Bank town of Nablus was never broadcast. The Jerusalem bureau chief of The Associated Press was told by Palestinian officials that they could not guarantee the safety of the cameraman if the film was distributed, according to an A.P. dispatch. A third A.P. video was confiscated by authorities and returned with portions deleted. Late last week, a new report emerged purporting to discredit the Reuters footage and a separate Associated Press still photograph. The report, by the German magazine Der Stern, quoted a Palestinian woman shown in both images as saying she had celebrated because the cameramen had bribed her with candy. The Reuters cameraman, Eli Berlzon, who is a senior staff member in the Jerusalem bureau, vehemently denied that account. In an interview Friday, he said that he and two cameramen and a reporter from The Associated Press came upon a few adults — including the woman, identified by Stern as Fatma Hussein — and some celebrating children on Sultan Suleiman Street in East Jerusalem. The Reuters cameraman said: "Whatever happened, we shot. We are not involved in making the news, staging the news. I've never done that and I never intend to." Officials of The Associated Press in New York and Reuters in Jerusalem said Stern did not seek their response before publishing its article. The Stern reporter, Bernd Dörler, was on his way to Beirut on Friday and could not be reached. Peter Meroth, a spokesman for Stern, said his magazine stood by the article — which is now fodder for a whole new round of e-mails.