NewsMine.org - staged celebration.txt

NewsMine.org - staged celebration.txt

>The following information came to me via the Buddhist Peace Fellowship>listserve. I think it is of interest to you. I visited both links>and can confirm the substance of the message below: the full video>clearly shows the same group from 9/11; they are a small group of about six>or>seven children, one woman, and two or three young men being urged to act>cheerful in front of a camera. The cameraman can be seen handing out>treats.>Many people are passing by in the background without giving any notice to>the>event, which is obviously not some sort of rally. You have to wait all>the way to the end of the video to see the whole footage.>>It is quite stunning that such footage would be utilized by TV channels>and mainstream print media across the US, and beyond. The consequences>of using this footage are clear (not implying that these consequences>were planned) : further dehumanization of Palestinians and Arabs and>furthering xenophobia in the US.>>Rania Masri>---------->from Indy Media:>"Celebrating Palestinians": Scene WAS ACTUALLY staged (english)>by Juergen 3:02am Tue Sep 25 '01 (Modified on 3:54am Tue Sep 25 '01)>>"A few days ago a Brazilian student, Marcio, claimed CNN was showing old>scenes of celebrating Palestinians, claiming they were celebrating the>WTC disaster. 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 are celebrating.>>"You can see the video online on>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:>http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,158625,00.html>Unfortunately, in German as well. You can still see the pictures,>though.">>Here's a little synapses of the article in Der Spiegel (titled "What is>the truth?"):>>Der Spiegel reports on the analysis conducted by Panorama. They point>out that the pictures that went around the world only showed close-ups,>never the whole street full of people celebrating. What Panorama found out,>when watching the whole thing, was that there were shots of the street>surrounding the cheering groups. These shots indicated that there were>only a handful of people cheering while the majority of people passed by>without participating (the second picture in the Spiegel article shows>that).