Re: CNN USING 1991 FOOTAGE of celebrating Palistinians to manipulate yo

I find the comments below entirely plausible. BUT I CANNOT SPREAD THIS
INFORMATION ON BASED SOLELY ON AN E-MAIL!  So, if someone can find a more
authoritative source for that story about 1991 Footage, I, and thousands
more would be very grateful and promise to spread that information to
hundreds of thousands more.

Alan Spector

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From: "Mark Douglas Whitaker" <mrkdwhit@wallet.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:59 PM
Subject: CNN USING 1991 FOOTAGE of celebrating Palistinians to manipulate
you


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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
>
> I'd like to add some ideas from here, down south.
>
> There's an important point in the power of press, specifically the power
of
> CNN.
>
> 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.
>
> But now, think for a moment about the impact of such images. Your people
> is hurt, emotionally fragile, and this kind broadcast have very high
> possibility of causing waves of anger and rage against Palestinians.
> It's simply irresponsible to show images such as those.
>
> Finally, I'd like to say that we all regret and condemn all that has
> happened in the last days; but Nikos has a point here. I really don't
> want to be misunderstood here, but the truth is that US government had
> shown no respect for other countries in the last decades. In the 60s and
> 70s they had halped lots of military coups throughout the world
> (including Brazil in 64). Later, with Reagan and Bush Father, the
> Washington Consensus have been demolishing the bases of our economies,
> making us more and more dependant (and, many of us, prehocupied with
> this situation).
>
> Your current president quickly made things worse: Kioto Protocol, Star
> Wars, Colombia Plan, the exchange of rain forest for pieces of external
> debt, tha abandonment of the position of third party in negotiations
> between IRA and England, and between Palestinians and Israel. All those
> mistakes in US external politics made your country more hatred than
> before, and, of course, more vulnerable.
>
> Listen, I'm NOT justifying the terrorist actions that took place in your
> country; but it seems to me that, if your leaders had come along another
> path of thoughts and actions, you wouldn't be suffering what you are
> now.
>
> Best regards, and the hope that everything is resolved for the best of
> all of us
>
> Márcio A. V. Carvalho
> State University of Campinas - Brazil
>