IP: Re: What you see on CNN is not what you thought -- BBC on CNN

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:17:12 -0700
> From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger () ultradevices com>
>
> I suspect that this meme which has been circulating around the Internet is 
> false.
>
> I could not find anything on the BBC site that would confirm the assertion 
> that the video of Palestinians celebrating the attack was fake. I did find 
> a Russel Grossman Head of Internal Communication of the BBC listed as a 
> speaker at some conference, but not on the BBC website.
>
> There were some news articles on BBC that did show Palestinians 
> celebrating such as:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1540000/1540102.stm
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1540000/1540029.stm
> and there was no comments on  faked or old footage.
>
> BBC articles did say that it was not all Palestinians and definately very 
> few Arab officials condoning the event (basically Iraq).
>
> I had also heard a report on NPR a nite or so ago where it was reported 
> that cameramen were detained and harrased by Arafat's people when they 
> were filming Palestinians that were celebrating....
>
> I'm not pointing all this out because of any political point of view, just 
> to show how tenuous media literacy, differeing views of reality and 
> general media accountability is..
>
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