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Re: Old CNN footage / urban myth



Very interesting. Nevertheless, we should still be aware that 20 little
children do not represent the entire Palestinian population.

Erik Nordberg wrote:

> 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
> -----------------------------
> 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
>
> --clip--
>
> 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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