Re: CNN USING 1991 FOOTAGE of celebrating Palistinians to manipulate

Can this be confirmed or else rejected?

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Mark Douglas Whitaker wrote:

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> CNN USING 1991 FOOTAGE of celebrating Palistinians to manipulate you
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> From: "Marcio A. V. de Carvalho" <marcio.carv@UOL.COM.BR>
> Subject:      Fourth Power
> To: SOCIAL-THEORY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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