Josephine Berry on 18 Sep 2001 16:19:11 -0000 |
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>From the Left Business Observer list: ---------- > Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:04:15 -0400 > From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@osu.edu> > Subject: Re: "fake" footage and rejoicing palestinians > > Jeffrey Fisher posted: > >> fyi, this from the electronicintifada site re: "fake" cnn footage and media >> use of images of celebration. >> >> apologies if i missed this being posted already. >> >> http://electronicintifada.net/new.html >> >> Various rumours circulating on the Internet -- alleging that the Reuters >> footage depicting Palestinians celebrating in the wake of the attacks in the >> U.S. was in fact footage from a different event -- are false. Still images, >> such as the Associated Press image above, were additionally shot by >> photographers from a variety of wire service agencies. >> >> Reuters' International Editor, Anthony Williams, confirmed to The Electronic >> Intifada that "This material was shot on Tuesday. The suggestion that it was >> old is false." Mike Hanna, Jerusalem bureau chief of CNN, the media >> organisation named in many versions of the rumour, told us that, "I can >> unequivocally state that the footage shown on CNN of a small group of >> Palestinians "celebrating" was shot by a Reuters crew in East Jerusalem on >> Tuesday. The allegation that it was shot at any other time is contemptible." > <snip> > > Thanks for posting this, Jeffrey. I've forwarded it to many lists & > individuals. > > Yoshie > the divine diva of websites ->- www.metamute.com -<- has risen again * ->- www.ouimadame.org -<- * to follow ** distributed via <oldboys list>: no commercial use without permission ** <oldboys list> is an unmoderated mailing list for global cyberfeminism ** to remove your address from the list, send a message to: <oldboys-unsubscribe-xy=domain.topleveldomain@lists.ccc.de> ** more info: send mail to: oldboys-info@lists.ccc.de and/or <oldboys-faq@lists.ccc.de> ** archive: http://www.nettime.org/oldboys ** contact: oldboys-owner@lists.ccc.de ** www.obn.org