[42248] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Yes it's off topic but who cares right now.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Fri Sep 14 13:38:13 2001
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 12:37:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
Cc: "Borchers, Mark" <mborchers@splitrock.net>,
"'Los, Ralph'" <rlos@EnvestNet.com>,
'Dmitri Krioukov' <dima@krioukov.net>,
'Arman Khalili' <arman@unitedlayer.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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> On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Borchers, Mark wrote:
> > doing. I do not think the people we saw dancing in the streets
> > on the news were typical Arab citizens.
>
> You might find this very interesting:
This my friend is total POS. The news is timestamped. The ITN's news was time
stamped. So was BBC's. So tell your friend to grow a brain.
Alex
>
> From: "Marcio A. V. de Carvalho"
> <marcio.carv@UOL.COM.BR>
> Subject: Fourth Power
>
> 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, search
> 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 is 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.
>
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