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发帖数: 29846 | 1 November 17, 2012 Posted by Warner Todd Huston
In its pro-Palestinian coverage of the escalated violence in the Middle East
, CNN used faked video footage showing Palestinian “victims” of Israel’s
rockets being dragged off the streets.
On his November 15 report, Anderson Cooper hosted a report by CNN
correspondent Sara Sidner and during the wind up to her report Cooper played
a few video snippets of “victims” being dragged off the streets of the
Palestinian held areas.
But one of those “victims” wasn’t a victim at all but was instead a man
merely acting injured all for the benefit of western cameras.
Worse, this particular faux victim video is a well-known fake. Breitbart
already posted about this “Pallywood” theatrical extravaganza and if we
knew about it, how could CNN not have known?
CNN isn’t the only Old Media outlet that falls for fake Palestinian videos.
There is, for example, a famous video that caused a contentious court case
in France back in 2008. It was a fake video supposedly showing a young
Palestinian boy named Muhammad al-Dura being shot at by Israel’s Defense
Forces. At first, the video caused international outrage, but in time it was
proven to be just Palestinian street theater. No Muhammad al-Dura was ever
shot at.
The BBC also has a long history of anti-Israel bias.
How do these fake videos continue to end up in western news coverage? It’s
because few western news organizations actually have any news crews on the
ground in these affected areas. As it happens, throughout the Mid East
western news outlets rely on “stringers” to get video of events. In this
case, a stringer is a Palestinian who takes his own video and then sells it
to western news agencies. This leaves western news agencies naturally open
to faked, Palestinian propaganda. But, the thing is, all these western news
agencies know this is happening and they just don’t care.
These faked, “Pallywood” videos will continue to be used by western news
organizations because it satisfies their anti-Israel bias. |
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