The thing that struck me about the footage is that there were about four adults and a couple of kids. There were more people not celebrating. The footage was introduced as mass demonstrations. However that is not what the footage shows. During the Falklands war the BBC showed us Argentine news footage claiming to be showing footage of the front landing gear of a shot down Harrier. The commentary ridiculed the Argentine claim that it was a Harrier stating categroically that Harrier landing gear looked different, however that is exactly what it was later demonstrated to be. Phill
-----Original Message----- From: owner-fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu [mailto:owner-fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu]On Behalf Of Declan McCullagh Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 6:14 PM To: lizard Cc: Matthew Gaylor; FOI-L@listserv.syr.edu; Jim Warren; fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu; cypherpunks@lne.com; CYBERIA-L@listserv.aol.com Subject: Re: CNN Using 1991 Footage of Celebrating Palestinians?
I agree with Liz. This violates journalistic principles (old footage can be used but must be labeled "file footage" or similar) and would expose CNN to withering criticism from its competitors and other journalists.
Worth ignoring.
-Declan
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 01:46:16PM -0700, lizard wrote:
Matthew Gaylor wrote:
CNN Using 1991 Footage of Celebrating Palestinians
Can anyone verify this?
http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/display.php3?ar ticle_id=6946
Reading through the following comments, it seems unlikely. Possible, but unlikely. The evidence, at this point, consists of an obviously anti-US poster referring to an unnamed Professor with an unseen tape. That's pretty low on the rely-o-meter.
I won't say it's impossible, but I want a better source.