[Nettime-bold] CNN footage/Palestinians-Update

[mollybh@netspace.net.au]

Dear List, 
This was sent to me by my freind Valerie Soe
a videomaker in the States. A strange twist
on the truth of the pictures of celebrating
Palestinians. 
Molly





--- Forwarded message from valerie soe <vsoe@sfsu.edu> -----
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:59:35 -0700
From: valerie soe <vsoe@sfsu.edu>
Reply-To: valerie soe <vsoe@sfsu.edu>
Subject: that famous footage of palestinians celebrating--staged?

Dear All,

Here's some information about the recurring image of Palestinians
celebrating shortly after the WTC attack--something to consider since it's
been one of the most inflammatory images used to stir up the patriotic
frenzy. Please pass this along if you see fit--

v.

From: Peter X Feng <feng@udel.edu>
Subject: yet more info re:  footage of Palestinian celebrations

This is getting more and more bizarre.

Disclaimer: I'm forwarding this from a colleague and do not know the person
who originally wrote the e-mail (for a media watch listserv).  I am removing
the originating e-mail b/c I have not been granted permission to forward it.
So evaluate this info yourself.

I haven't been able to get a fast download on the video itself, but the DER
SPIEGEL story confirms the account.

> A few days ago a Brazilian student, Marcio, claimed CNN was showing old
> scenes of celebrating Palestinians, claiming they were celebrating the WTC
> desaster. Well, the scenes were not old, but were manipulated!
>
> In a recent statement CNN insisted that the famous footage was shot on the
> day of the WTC blast. Meanwhile, German reporters of the prestigious
> "Panorama" TV magazine investigated how the scenes were shot. What they found
> out was amazing. On German TV they aired, supposedly for the first time,
> parts of the entire 4-minute footage not previously shown.
>
> It became clear that a person was animating a couple of children to cheer in
> front of the camera. The woman cheering was offered a candy to act cheerful.
> She later said she was shocked that her pictures were shown in the context of
> the terrorist attacks. She had no idea what they were for. A total view of
> the scene shows a street largely full of at best apathic people doing
> business as usual. Only a handful of people standing in front of the camera a
> celebrating.
>
> You can see the video online on { HYPERLINK
> "<http://www.ndrtv.de/panorama/sendung/index.html.>http://www.ndrtv.de/pan
> orama/sendung/index.html." }http://www.ndrtv.de/panorama/sendung/index.html.
> The link is below the second picture and in German. But you can still see the
> pictures in the report. Forward to 7 minutes 45 seconds and watch it until
> the end.
>
> Furthermore, the highly regarded German magazine "Der Spiegel" has had an
> article on this. The article shows the picture of the woman getting candy and
> another one people showing more people in the background of the cheering
> kids. These people are passing by as usual.
>
> Read the article on: { HYPERLINK
> "<http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,158625,00.html>http://www.s
> piegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,158625,00.html"
> }http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,158625,00.html

> Unfortunately, in German as well. You can still see the pictures, though.
>
> The direct links for the video are either of the following:
>
> rtsp://193.97.251.26:554/media/tv/panorama/20010920_medien.rm
>
> or
>
> pnm://193.97.251.26:7070/media/tv/panorama/20010920_medien.rm
>
> Just copy either of the links and paste into the address bar on your browser
> and hit enter; it should load real player for you automatically.
>
> Perhaps somebody that speaks German can make us an English transcript. It is
> a ten minute video; the relevant part begins about 7min 30secs into it.
>
> The question is: if it was staged who staged it and why?

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Peter X Feng
Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies
University of Delaware

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence
multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending
spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil--hate begetting hate,
wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the
dark abyss of annihilation."
-Martin Luther King, 1963

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        Valerie Soe
    oxygen productions
"you can't live without it"
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