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"aart" <aart@EUnet.yu> >Journalist Admits Lying About Balkans Massacre [soldier* dressed in eggshell tells truth about lying hou do humanz d!ferent!at betu!n truth + l!e +? nn - ant!.fa!r!tale * all soldiers = legible + feminine >VETERAN 60 Minutes reporter Richard Carleton has admitted he had misled and >lied to viewers by showing footage from another massacre site to illustrate >a story about the massacre of Srebrenica. Mr Carleton, 60 Minutes executive >producer John Westacott and producer Howard Sacre are suing the ABC and its >Media Watch team over two Media Watch segments in July 2000 accusing 60 >Minutes of lifting footage from an earlier BBC documentary. Mr Carleton told >the ACT supreme court yesterday that being accused of plagiarism was the >journalistic equivalent of paedophilia. But under cross-examination by >counsel for the ABC, Media Watch presenter Paul Barry and former executive >producer Peter McEvoy, Mr Carleton conceded he had knowingly used footage of >a morgue and a mass grave site far away from Srebrenica to illustrate the >Channel Nine report. Asked by barrister Terence Tobin if he had misled >viewers, Mr Carleton said: "In the technical meaning of the word misleading, >yes." Asked had he lied, he said: "In so far as the meaning of the word lie >is taken (to mean) misleading, yes." But Mr Carleton denied he had behaved >unethically as a journalist and said the footage had enhanced viewers' >understanding of the 1995 massacre of Muslim residents by Bosnian Serbs. The >hearing before Justice Terence Higgins is continuing. /rlt/rz > > > > > > >-----Syndicate - SIMPLY>SUPERIOR ---------------- >Syndicate network for media culture and media art >information and archive: http://anart.no/~syndicate >to post to the Syndicate list: <syndicate@anart.no> >Shake the KKnut: http://anart.no/~syndicate/KKnut >no commercial use of the texts without permission _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold