From: Sean Kenny (seankenny@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2001 - 09:06:42 MDT
Apologies for that - spoofed again.
Us liberals are soooo gullible!
----- Original Message -----
From: Sean Kenny <seankenny@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: extropians <extropians@tick.javien.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 1:12 PM
Subject: Fw: [_] Power of Press -
> Got this from another list - who to believe. Hmm.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rob Mitchell <rob.mitchell@netgates.co.uk>
> To: Underscore (E-mail) <underscore@under-score.org.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:16 PM
> Subject: [_] Power of Press -
>
>
> Following Rob W's mail about Information and disinformation, what about
> this?
>
> Speaking of Power and DisemPowerment:
> What happens when a global new organisation does what one claims is the
> downfall of email?
>
> New Media, Email
>
> A NOTE ABOUT TRUTH-CHECKING
> Granted I only know the person who sent it to me, and no-one else along
the
> chain.
> So I then , took time out to call the BBC , which confirms that the author
> of this piece is indeed the head of internal comms there
> Still, doesn't prove that he wrote this, or that it is true, but...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Sobers [SMTP:shawn.sobers@at-bristol.org.uk]
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 10:55 AM
> Subject: FW: FW: Power of Press - Not good
>
> To all.
> If this information is true, then I thought it was far too important not
to
> share!
> Praying for peace.
> Shawn
> x
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>
>
> Patricia Maguire on 19/09/2001 15:06:34
> To: Lavina Maloney/RHM@RHM, KATHRYN FROST/RHM@RHM, Simone Walsh/RHM@RHM,
> Karen Johnston/RHM@RHM, bmoloney@hoson.com, smcgahon@eircom.ie,
> do'riordan@krafteurope.com
> cc:
> Subject: Power of Press - Not good
>
>
>
> 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 caught my attention: the Palestinians celebrating the
bombing,
> out on the streets, eating celebration sweets 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 of an issue.
> At the BBC here, we have these footages on videotapes recorded in 1991,
with
> the very same images. But now, think for a moment about the impact of such
> images. Your people are hurt, emotionally fragile, and this kind of
> broadcast has very high possiblity of causing waves of anger and rage
> against the Palestinians.
> It's simply irresponsible to show images such as those.
> Russell Grossman | Head of Internal Communication | BBC
> Third Floor | London Broadcasting House | LONDON W1A 1AA
>
> I thought so, the night they first showed those images, a BBC news
reporter
> in Palestine (I forget her name) denied that these scenes were taking
place.
>
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