re.can anyone see the deception

[Guest guest]

aplogies if you received this twice..i'm not sure if it went through the

first time

Dear Brad,

this is the e mail with the link at the bottom which says the alleged 1991

pictures of palestinians is a hoax

 

[ Pass this information on to other lists and contacts. ]

Dear Members,

 

The following is not about astrology, but since many of us are doing

astrological analysis on various levels, and due to the gravity of

the world situation at this time

Steve Lee

New Zealand

 

 

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THE CLAIM THAT CNN USED 1991 FILM

ABOUT THE PALESTINIANS IS A HOAX.

 

> Please please check the validity of such stories before sending

them on to others!

 

> It is so easy to do: just bookmark these two URL addresses:

 

http://www.snopes2.com/

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBSearch.html

 

>Then do the simple search (using key words).

 

BE RESPONSIBLE. CHECK FIRST.

 

> Send this email on to your email contacts.

> Let us all team together to stop this nonsense.

 

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The URL for this page is

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/cnn.htm

 

Claim: CNN used old footage to fake images of 'Palestinians dancing

in the street' after the terrorist attack on the USA.

 

Status: False.

 

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2001]

 

 

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 cake 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,

with 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.

 

 

Origins: The primary issue should not really be whether older video

footage was used to represent a current event, but whether the news

of event was reported accurately. That is, was it correct to report

that at least some Palestinians were "celebrating" the news that

terrorist attacks had been made against the United States of America?

Certainly CNN wasn't the only news organization to report that

information, as other outlets such as Reuters and the Los Angeles

Times carried the same story. Also, other news outlets such as Fox

News and The Jerusalem Post reported that journalists were threatened

for capturing images of Palestinian celebrations, making real footage

of the event harder to obtain.

 

 

In any case, this hypothetical brouhaha appears to be moot: Eason

Jordan, CNN's Chief News Executive, confirmed that the video footage

used on CNN was in fact shot Tuesday in East Jerusalem by a Reuters

TV crew, not during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 -- a fact proved by

its inclusion of comments from a Palestinian praising Osama Bin

Laden, whose name was unlikely to have come up ten years earlier in

connection with the invasion of Kuwait.

 

Last updated: 16 September 2001

 

 

The URL for this page is

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/cnn.htm >>

 

all of the above is copied from an astro group run by Steve Lee.. i'm just

passing it on...to anyone interested

 

stavavali d.d