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Old CNN footage / urban myth



I thought the following piece in today's RAIN was a nice coda to our
discussion about the urban myth that was growing about the CNN footage.

Erik Nordberg
Michigan Tech
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New York Times 9/24/01
A false challenge to news photos takes root on the Web
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/business/media/24TAPE.html

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Since then, the film's authenticity has been verified by both CNN and
Reuters, whose cameraman took the images in East Jerusalem. But the
bogus story has taken root around the world.

A recantation by Mr. Carvalho - speaking through his university's public
relations office - has not stopped the e-mail. In fact, Mr. Carvalho is
irrelevant now - his words are circulating over the purported signature
of Russell Grossman, the head of Internal Communication at the BBC in
London. 

Through a spokesman, Mr. Grossman said he never sent such a message. And
a close reader of the two versions may have wondered why a Brazilian
student and a British news executive used identical, slightly
ungrammatical language, including this sentence: "It'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."

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