CNN Crime Against Public Information

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 attention: 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 communications as CNN uses images which do not correspond to the reality in talking about so serious an issue.

The tents in which the protesters sleep. Vieques, Puerto Rico

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 these kind of files, search for them. In the meanwhile, I'll try to obtain a copy of this tape.

But now, think for a moment about the impact of such images. Your people are hurt, emotionally fragile, and this kind broadcast has a very high possibility of causing waves of anger and rage against Palestinians. It's simply irresponsible to show images such as those.

Márcio A. V. Carvalho
State University of Campinas - Brazil


Editor's note: Not only is it irresponsible, it is deliberate. This is what the mainstream media does in the United States. This is why the mass of American people don't know the truth.