Why the Palestinian Candy Story Was Believed

[Declan McCullagh]

It's also bias against the mainstream media -- the person who circulated
the lie and the apparent originator both talked about evil corporations
or what not -- that may in some cases be justified, but often is not.
Certainly this "CNN file footage" was a lie, and a nasty one at that.

-Declan


On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 12:56:26PM -0400, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
> There are reasons why alleged urban legends such as when CNN filmed 
> the Palestinian candy celebration are believed.  It is in part due to 
> an innate distrust of government and the fact that governments do 
> engage in propaganda and disinformation campaigns.
> 
> <http://cryptome.org/madsen-hmhd.htm> Wayne Madsen wrote:
> "The Pentagon is a master at deception campaigns aimed at the news 
> media. They constantly broadcast disinformation to television and 
> radio audiences in Haiti, Serbia, Colombia, Mexico and elsewhere."
> 
> Most of us should remember the mini-flap (Which should have been much 
> larger) when it was revealed that the US Army's psychological 
> operations units intern at CNN. Now "Ha'aretz Daily" reports that an 
> Israel Defence Force (IDF) film crew was dispatched to film candy 
> being handed out in East Jerusalem and the Palestinian newspaper 
> "Jerusalem Times" reports that the candy shop owner was paid for the 
> candy by the IDF.