-Caveat Lector- > 60 Minutes: "Faking It" > > The media has awesome power to "fake it." And we're not only talking about a biased >news story. Instead, > we're talking about staged events. Stuff that never happens is aired on national TV >as true-to-life "news" > events. An unsuspecting audience usually believes what it sees. Especially if it's >footage aired on > well-known and popular news TV show. > > On Sunday, 1.10.99, 60 Minutes' Ed Bradley reported about Michael Bjorn and Stern >TV, a German company. > The focus of the story was how Bjorn would stage "news" events and then sell it to >Stern TV. This went on for many years > during the 80s. > > For example, Bjorn would stage a KKK rally to buttress a real story he was doing >about Neo-Nazi groups. Not finding any real KKK > rallies, Bjorn would pay friends and use family to literally produce a supposed KKK >rally. Bjorn would even enlist his mother > to sew together white capes and dunce hats for his actors to wear in the skit he >filmed, and later sold to Stern TV. But there was only > one minor oversight. Some of the swastikas were sewed on backwards. And, no one >apparently at Stern TV even bothered to notice. > Or, as Bjorn recalls, they simply didn't care. TV ratings seemed more important than >journalistic integrity. > > 60 Minutes offered several other examples where Bjorn would use paid actors in his >"news" footage. One involved > paying male actors to walk around with fake guns and pretend to be terrorists Bjorn >was interviewing. Instead of being in > Turkey, where the news footage was allegedly filmed, Bjorn was in the backyard of >his summer home interviewing "terrorists" for an > upcoming news story he was planning to sell to Stern TV. > > Fake beards. Fake guns. Fake plastique. And fake terrorists. Bjron was sentenced to >4 years in jail by a German court after > a police officer identified the voice of an actor used by Bjorn in two different >"news" events, both aired by Stern TV. In one segment > the actor was dressed as a Klansman, and in another he was a suspected drug runner. >The policeman pieced it together and after an > investigation, Bjorn was found guilty. > > Before being arrested, what was Bjorn planning to "report?" > > "Russians landing on Mars in 1989," he tells Bradley. Bjorn chuckled that he was >confident he could've pulled that off too. > > One wonders what 10 years later the mass media can create for public consumption. > ------------>snip>---------------- fyi. Regards, -A http://www.erols.com/mack97 "The sharpest tool in the shed." -- anonymous DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
