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

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

Naturally CNN reacted to the accusation that they falsified footage 
of Palestinian reaction to the WTC bombing. Here is what they say:
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Cutting straight to the chase, no, CNN did not air decade-old 
footage of Palestinians dancing in the streets. Eason Jordan, 
CNN's Chief News Executive, confirmed that the video used on 
CNN was in fact shot on Tuesday, 11 September 2001, in East 
Jerusalem by a Reuters TV crew, not during the Persian Gulf 
conflict of 1990-91 -- a fact proved by its inclusion of comments 
from a Palestinian praising Osama Bin Laden, whose name was 
unlikely to have come up ten years earlier in connection with
the invasion and liberation of Kuwait. As well, the person who made 
the claim quoted above has since recanted.

http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/outrage/cnn.htm


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Consequently, then, Pentagon should allow free press reporting 
from the Afghanistan war operation.

ivo


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