[Nettime-bold] On the limits of the freedom of the press

["Ivo Skoric" <ivo@reporters.net>]

I generally believe in the freedom of the press. Therefore from my 
perspective - the Pentagon's plan to severely limit the press 
reporting from the "new war" would be the first victory for the 
Taliban over the American way of life.

On the other hand, if the following is true - that the CNN used the 
footage of Palestinians celebrating the invasion of Kuwait in 1991 to 
portray them celebrating the attack on the WTC a week ago - then, 
perhaps, such blatantly abusive reporting should be curtailed.

ivo
------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 5:28 PM
> Subject: can you believe this???
> 
> 
> CNN USING 1991 FOOTAGE of celebrating Palistinians 
> to manipulate you (english) by Marcio 10:32pm Wed
> Sep 12 '01 
> 
> 
> 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 are 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. Best regards, and the hope
> that everything is 
> resolved for the best of all of us. 
> 
> PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY ..



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