FWD: Carvalho on CNN Footage

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Carvalho on CNN Footage 
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 called my attencion: the Palestinians celebrating the bombing, 
out on the streets, eating some cake 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! It\'s 
simply unacceptable that a super-power of cumminications as CNN uses images 
which do not correspond to the reality in talking about so serious an issue.

A teacher of mine, here in Brazil, has videotapes recorded in 1991, with the 
very same images; he\'s been sending emails to CNN, Globo (the major TV 
network in Brazil) and newspapers, denouncing what I myself classify as a 
crime against the public opinion. If anyone of you has access to this kind of 
files, serch for it. In the meanwhile, I\'ll try to \'put my hands\' on a 
copy of this tape.

But now, think for a moment about the impact of such images. Your people is 
hurt, emotionally fragile, and this kind broadcast have very high possibility 
of causing waves of
anger and rage against Palestinians. It\'s simply irresponsible to show 
images such as those.

Finally, I\'d like to say that we all regret and condemn all that has 
happened in the last days; but Nikos has a point here. I really don\'t want 
to be misunderstood here, but the truth is that US government had shown no 
respect for other countries in the last decades. In the 60s and 70s they had 
halped lots of military coups throughout the world (including Brazil in 64). 
Later, with Reagan and Bush Father, the Washington Consensus have been 
demolishing the
bases of our economies, making us more and more dependant (and, many of us, 
prehocupied with this situation).

Your current president quickly made things worse: Kioto Protocol, Star Wars, 
Colombia Plan, the exchange of rain forest for pieces of external debt, tha 
abandonment of the position of third party in negotiations between IRA and 
England, and between Palestinians and Israel. All those
mistakes in US external politics made your country more hatred than before, 
and, of course, more vulnerable.

Listen, I\'m NOT justifying the terrorist actions that took place in your 
country; but it seems to me that, if your leaders had come along another path 
of thoughts and actions, you wouldn\'t be suffering what you are now.

Best regards, and the hope that everything is resolved for the best of all of 
us 

Marcio A. V. Carvalho State University of Campinas - Brazil

Quelle: http://www.counterpunch.org/carvalho.html  



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