CNN messed up. spread the word, send emails to all news channels.

Raju420

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CNN using 1991 footage of Palestinians
celebrating the invasion of Kuwait



Brazil

By Márcio A. V. Carvalho

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 attention:
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
communications 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 e-mails to CNN, Globo (the major TV network in
Brazil) and newspapers, denouncing what I myself
classify as a crime against the public opinion.

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.

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, preoccupied 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