CNN Using 1991 Footage of Celebrating Palestinians?
Omri Schwarz
ocschwar at mit.edu
Thu Sep 13 15:14:46 PDT 2001
$cat /dev/rumormill
One of the pictures has a little boy wearing a
t-shirt referring to the 1998 FIFA world cup.
Haven't seen the picture (indymedia.il is
having MySQL trouble); can't try to confirm yet.
> 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?article_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.
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