IP: Last one RE: What you see on CNN is not what you thought -- BBC on CNN

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:04:51 -0700
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Simon Higgs <simon () higgs com>
> Subject: Re: IP: What you see on CNN is not what you thought -- BBC on
>   CNN
>
> At 07:12 PM 9/19/01 -0400, you wrote:
>
> For IP...
>
> The fact CNN was using old footage was originally reported on 9/12/2001. 
> There is an AP story released on 9/13/2001 explaining why current footage 
> was not available to CNN (which still doesn't let CNN off the hook):
>
> JERUSALEM (AP)--The Associated Press on Wednesday protested to the 
> Palestinian Authority about threats against a freelance cameraman who 
> filmed Palestinians celebrating terror attacks in the United States.
> The videographer, on assignment for Associated Press Television News, was 
> summoned to a Palestinian Authority security office and told that the 
> material must not be aired. Calls in the name of the Tanzim militia, an 
> armed group associated with Yasser Arafat's Fatah group, warned him he 
> would be held responsible and made what he interpreted as threats on his 
> life. Several Palestinian Authority officials spoke to AP in Jerusalem 
> urging that the material not be broadcast. Ahmed Abdel Rahman, Arafat's 
> Cabinet secretary, said the Palestinian Authority "cannot guarantee the 
> life" of the cameraman if the footage was broadcast. The cameraman then 
> requested that the material not be aired. In light of the danger, APTN has 
> not released the footage of the rally in Nablus. AP news stories reported 
> worldwide on the demonstration in Nablus and AP distributed still pictures 
> and video of similar rallies in east Jerusalem, Lebanon and elsewhere. An 
> AP still photographer did not take pictures of the Nablus rally after 
> being warned at the scene not to do so. The protest by AP Chief of Bureau 
> Dan Perry said, "I ask the assurances of the Palestinian Authority that 
> you will protect our journalists from threats and attempts at intimidation 
> and that no harm would come to our freelance cameraman from distribution 
> of the film."
>
> http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=63288&group=webcast
>
> > > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:54:11 -0400
> > > From: Eric Rosenthal <eric () creative-technology net>
> > > > 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 caught my 
> > > > attention: the
> > > > Palestinians celebrating the bombing, out on the streets, eating 
> > > > celebration
> > > > sweets 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! t's simply unacceptable that a
> > > > super-power of communications as CNN uses images which do not correspond to
> > > > the reality in talking about so serious of an issue.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > At the BBC here, we have these footages on videotapes recorded in 1991,
> > > >
> > > > with the very same images. But now, think for a moment about the impact of
> > > > such images. Your people are  hurt, emotionally fragile, and this kind of
> > > > broadcast has very
> > > >
> > > > high possiblity of causing waves of anger and rage against the 
> > > > Palestinians.
> > > >
> > > > It's simply irresponsible to show images such as those.
> > > >
> > > > Russell Grossman | Head of Internal Communication  | BBC
> > > >
> > > > Third Floor | London Broadcasting House | LONDON  W1A 1AA
> > >
> > >
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> >
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> Best Regards,
>
> Simon
>
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