CNN Images

[Mark Harris]

Marcio A.V. Carvalho wrote:

< 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. >

This new Internet legend has already been debunked in
many places. Richard Roeper writes about it in today's
Chicago Sun-Times. Note how Carvalho's account follows
classic urban legend protocols: the sourcing to an
unidentified friend, the fact that he'll "try" to put
his hands on a copy of the mysterious tape. Right.

Mark R. Harris



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