[Imc] FWD: you can't believe everything you see...

[jacobs]

Hey all, I'm starting to get posts like the one below. I'm not sure of its 
origin or validity (someone posted it to another list that I read) but it 
somehow doesn't surprise me. Has anyone else heard of CNN using old footage? 
If so, it's truly despicable.

James Jacobs

>===== Original Message From "bitter pie" <bitterpie at hotmail.com> =====
>From: Gunnar Paesbrugge <Gunnar.Paesbrugge at hob.be>
>Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:00:46 +0200
>
>Media - Massa - Manipulatie is begonnen  by a guy from Brazil 5:09am Fri
>Sep
>14 '01
>phone: 0473 532 494 to_arne at hotmail.com <mailto:to_arne at hotmail.com>
>
>Volgens onderstaand artikel uit Brazilië gebruiken de media en meerbepaald
>CNN BEELDEN UIT1991 van 'feestende palestijnen' n.a.v. de bomaanslagen op
>het WTC en Pentagon.(!)  THE ARTICLE  by Marcio (posted by kitty) 5:34am
>Thu
>Sep 13 '01     CNN USING 1991 FOOTAGE of celebrating Palistinians to
>manipulate you   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
>
>
>Gunnar Paesbrugge
>Hoofdstedelijke Openbare Bibliotheek
>Muntplein 6
>1000 Brussel
>tel: 02/229.18.45 fax: 02/229.18.50
>email: <gunnar.paesbrugge at hob.be>
>


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