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See CNN replies at
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa091101a.htm
At 11:30 PM 9/15/01 -0400, Wong wrote:
>Dear Editor of CNN:
>
>I received the following forwarding post from one of the members of an
>investment newsgroup.
>
>Could you please verify if the following accusation against your company is
>true or false?
>
>Thank you.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Hin-Shing Wong
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>
><< forwarding post from a member of an investment newsgroup >>
>
>
>Pearl Harbour once again.
>Forwarding (unverified) ...
>
>***
>For the last few days CNN have been broadcasting film footage of
>Palestinians supposedly celebrating Tuesday's catastrophic events. They now
>admit that the footage is actually 10 years-old.
>Remember that the first casualty in war is truth. jb}
>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.
>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
>
>
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