Footage wasn't from 1991

[ciphergoth]

The wonderful Snopes is on top of it. The footage of celebrating Palestinians was shot on Tuesday, 11 September 2001 in East Jerusalem by a Reuters TV crew.

http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/outrage/cnn.htm

They've got a whole page of war-related rumours:

http://www.snopes2.com/info/rumors.htm

probably worth checking out next time you hear a good one (eg Nostradamus). Most implausible so far: 4000 Israelis working in the WTC get a tip-off not to turn up to work on Tuesday, and not one of them breaks the vow of silence, not even, say, to warn a colleague...

http://www.thisiscyberia.com/NewsCenter/article.asp?ID=196628

Comments

CNN

[countess-sophia.livejournal.com]

I think the reason for much of the furore around this is down to a basic misunderstanding by many people of how the media works. Sloppy use of library stock is entirely possible, conspiracy most unlikely. I could entirely believe that CNN dropped in some old footage to illustrate an event, I find it less easy to believe that they would make something up.

In this case the allegation seems to be not proven, but it is a not completely uncommon phenomenon in news production that people would do well to be aware of. In the light of this I felt that the Snopes article was rather overwritten, to say the least.

hear hear!

[hbergeronx.livejournal.com]

and to indict the original writer for slander seems *way* out of line, on Snopes' part. Particularly when his original words were that it was an impression of a colleague and they were attempting to follow up, not a *fact*, and he retracted later reinforcing that.