From: Ken Kittlitz (ken@javien.com)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 12:21:59 MDT
At 02:47 AM 9/14/2001 +1000, Miriam English wrote:
>At 07:31 AM 13/09/2001 -0700, Brian D Williams wrote:
>
>>The image of them cheering is hard to get rid of.
>
>Which is probably why the clip was played over and over again... or maybe
>I am wording that wrongly. I should probably say that the viewers were
>played by those that screened the tape of those kids. It was guaranteed to
>get a nasty reaction. It almost certainly was not representative. So, why
>do you think they showed it?
A message posted to another list claims that at least some of the images
actually date from 1991, and were taken after the allied forces invaded
Kuwait (see below). I have no idea about the veracity of this claim.
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>From: "Marcio A. V. de Carvalho" <marcio.carv@UOL.COM.BR>
>Subject: Fourth Power
>To: SOCIAL-THEORY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>
>I'd like to add some ideas from here, down south.
>
>There's an important point in Nikos speech which appears to have been
>neglected: 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.
>
>Finally, I'd like to say that we all regret and condemn all that has
>happened in the last days; but Nikos has a point here. I really don't
>want to be misunderstood here, but the truth is that US government had
>shown no respect for other countries in the last decades. In the 60s and
>70s they had halped lots of military coups throughout the world
>(including Brazil in 64). Later, with Reagan and Bush Father, the
>Washington Consensus have been demolishing the bases of our economies,
>making us more and more dependant (and, many of us, prehocupied with
>this situation).
>
>Your current president quickly made things worse: Kioto Protocol, Star
>Wars, Colombia Plan, the exchange of rain forest for pieces of external
>debt, tha abandonment of the position of third party in negotiations
>between IRA and England, and between Palestinians and Israel. All those
>mistakes in US external politics made your country more hatred than
>before, and, of course, more vulnerable.
>
>Listen, I'm NOT justifying the terrorist actions that took place in your
>country; but it seems to me that, if your leaders had come along another
>path of thoughts and actions, you wouldn't be suffering what you are
>now.
>
>Best regards, and the hope that everything is resolved for the best of
>all of us
>
>Márcio A. V. Carvalho
>State University of Campinas - Brazil
--- Ken Kittlitz Vice-President, Javien Canada Inc. http://www.javien.com
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