> . > ----- Original Message ----- > From: secr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 6:33 PM > Subject: [mobilize-globally] CNN crime against public information > > > Subject: > [UK_Left_Network] Indymedia > Date: > Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:51:47 +0100 > From: > one 23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: > Rachel Tolhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >From Indymedia. > > http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/display.php3?article_id=6946 > > I'd like to add some ideas from here, down south. > > 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. > > [edited content] > > Mrcio A. V. Carvalho > State University of Campinas - Brazil > > > > _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
