Posted on 08/01/2006 10:17:19 AM PDT by pissant
In light of recent revelations of possible media manipulation in Qana, Lebanon, as reported by NewsBusters Monday, a 2005 video has been circulating throughout the Internet (hat tip to Ms. Underestimated with extraordinary video link to follow). In reality, this is an almost unbelievable look at how film footage from Israel that made national news after the Second Intifada began in September 2000 (including CBS’s “60 Minutes”) appears to have been staged, choreographed, and produced rather than real events that transpired in front of video cameras.
The film's producer, Dr. Richard Landes, teaches history at Boston University, and is the co-founder and Director of the Center for Millennial Studies. He also is the proprietor of The Second Draft, a website “devoted to exploring some of the problems and issues that plague modern journalism”:
The term "Pallywood" refers to the staging of scenes by Palestinian journalists in order to present the Palestinians as hapless victims of Israeli aggression. They are able to succeed in this endeavor in large part due to the credulity and eagerness of the Western press to present these images, which reinforce the image of the Palestinian David struggling valiantly against the overpowering Israeli Goliath. Pallywood has led to astonishing lapses in Western journalistic standards in which badly staged scenes regularly appear on the news as "real events."
For those interested in an in-depth look into how propaganda is really produced and created, this is a must see.
Watch Video.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Embedded journalism Hezbollah style.
"Watch, we hoisted rocket launchers on top of the neonatal unit of that hospital. Do you have your camera's rolling? It's already been phoned in."
ping
Greg Palcott on Fox this AM says that Tyre is teeming with Hezbollah. Israel will be there soon.
I thought Mary Mapes represented the standards for journalism?
They can show anything they want and it's up to someone else to prove them wrong.
Was she involved in the news report where the dead pali fell from the coffin, then got up and climbed back in?
Dan has too much journalistic integrity to run news faked by others, he demands only the fakes produced by him.
LOL!
Might as well have been. It's hard to believe that she was the only news producer who thought this way.
Does anybody have a link to that Fox video from Sunday where the guy gets off the stretcher?
She wasn't and isn't.
Ping me if you find it.
When are our soldiers going to start killing "journalists" that hook up with terrorists and film all their propaganda, they are flat out traitors!
Hopefully soon. The kind of collateral damage I like.
bump for later
Courage!
Yep.
I have heard that every time Lebanese see Isreali Rocket approaching, they gather their family members and run towards it - to make Isreal look bad.
Only a variation of suicide bombers.
Unfortuantely for them, they don't see the missiles coming. Can't wait until Nasrallah gets one up his ass.
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