From: DBBwanika-AT-netscape.net
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 02:53:08 -0400
Subject: BHA: : Fwd: BBC email + petition if you choose to sign


-----Original Message-----
      From: Internal Communications
      Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:19 PM
      Subject: CNN USING 1991 FOOTAGE

      This email is being sent to all staff
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   There's an important point in the power of press, specifically the   Power
   of CNN.

   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 caught my attention: the Palestinians celebrating the bombing,
   out on the streets, eating celebration sweets 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 of an issue.

   At the BBC here, we have these footages on videotapes recorded in 1991,
   with the very same images.  But now, think for a moment about the impact of
   such images. Your people are hurt, emotionally fragile, and this kind of
   broadcast has very high possiblity of causing waves of anger and rage
   against the Palestinians.

   It's simply irresponsible to show images such as those.

   Russell Grossman | Head of Internal Communication | BBC
   Third Floor | London Broadcasting House | LONDON W1A 1AA
   T: 020 7765 3612 | Internal: LBH 53612

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   Please sign The Petition at http://home.uchicago.edu/~dhpicker/petition
   which appeals to world leaders to be level-headed and, wherever possible,
   peaceful in their response to the recent attack against the United States.

   PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE, AS QUICKLY AS
   POSSIBLE.

   The signatures logged by the website above will be forwarded to leaders
   around the world. It is imperative that we act quickly to prevent war!!!

   Thank you.

   Nike Glaser Wieninger
   Geylinggasse 12
   A 1130 Wien
   fon +43 1 876 43 36
   fax +43 1 877 91 59
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