Read all about it! TCG has no real opinion the merits, here, of these sensational allegations against CNN. TCG only knows, for sure, that passions run strong on all sides of anything touching the Middle East. But TCG does recall that last month Michael Oren, the well-known Israeli expert, accused CNN of anti-Israel bias. As Oren wrote in The New Republic,"This was CNN at its unprincipled worst, grossly skewing its coverage of a complex event and deceiving its viewers."
And now these new charges, from Boston University professor Richard Landes, who seems credible enough, although obviously he is opinionated. So I will be interested in CNN's reaction; if the only issue if full disclosure, CNN ought to be for that, right?
So I will wait to see what the next move in this story might be.
In the meantime, here's the rest of the e-mail, being circulated by SpecialGuests.com, a cyber p.r. office:
On January 8th, CNN broadcast a story about a cameraman who allegedly filmed doctors trying in vain to resuscitate his twelve-year old brother. However, what’s portrayed as CPR is actually borderline laughable according to independent medial experts.
Dr. Richard Landes, filmmaker and man behind the 2006 YouTube phenomenon, “Pallywood: According to Palestinian Sources”, has issued a challenge to CNN that would quell any further debate. “Release the rushers (raw footage), says Landes. This will undoubtedly either validate CNN’s decision or expose the story as a fraud.”
At issue in the CNN piece is the apparent weak and feeble attempt by the doctor on the right to use CPR, as his motions resemble nothing even remotely close to Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation. “What the viewer sees,” says Landes, “is akin to someone having an ointment rubbed into their abdomen by someone seeking a large tip. If I was ever in need of CPR, let me go on record right now saying I don’t want that doctor within two continents of me – two very big continents.”
View the CNN story here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku5eGa9ydTM&eurl=http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/09/cnn-republishes-fake-atrocity-video/
View Pallywood film here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_B1H-1opys
ABOUT YOUR SPEAKER: Dr. Richard Landes
Richard Landes is a professor of History at Boston University and is also Director and co-founder of the Center for Millennial Studies. In addition, Landes is a filmmaker whose work, “Pallywood” was used as evidence at the recent trial.
A specialist in medieval history and millennialism, Landes now works on 21st century manifestations of medieval phenomena (holy war, anti-semitism, scapegoating, theocracy, martyr cults, human sacrifice). He specializes in the ways the media gets fooled by Jihadis using our MSM as a theater of war in their asymmetrical warfare against the west. He invented the term Pallywood, which illustrates the extent to which Palestinians will go to make news.
Landes earned his B.A. in social studies from Harvard and a Ph.D in History from Princeton. He has also written several books and articles while maintaining two websites.
www.seconddraft.org
