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From: Zahi Damuni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:49 PM
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Subject: [AL-AWDA-News] ALERT: CNN's new Palestinian gallery!!
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http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/cast/cnnbias12.asp
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PMWATCH - September 5, 2002 -- After an insulting false start back in late
July in the aftermath of the Gaza bombing, when CNN put up for no more than
two days a mini gallery on the "Victims of Gaza" -- a gallery that contained
not a single picture and not a single live link -- CNN is giving it another
shot and has now established what it is calling a "PALESTINIAN FATALITIES"
gallery.
The gallery is at:
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/world/0209/gallery.mideast.investigate/frames
et.exclude.html
What is worthy of note about this gallery are the following: (1) the gallery
is called "Palestinian FATALITIES", not "VICTIMS" -- the gallery for Israeli
victims was titled "Victims of terror" -- that is, only Israelis can be
victims; (2) the gallery goes back to the far distant day of Aug. 29,
2002 -- i.e., 8 days ago -- while the Israeli gallery goes back to January
1, 2002 (i.e., more than 9 months ago); (3) the Palestinian gallery begins
with the following apologetic text: "After a recent series of incidents in
which Palestinian civilians were killed by Israeli military forces, Defense
Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer launched an investigation and requested
recommendations on how such deaths could be prevented" -- in other words,
there is this strange creature out there that is mysteriously killing
Palestinians, and the head of the IDF is going to help the world find out
what this creature is and why it is doing the nasty things it is doing; (4)
not a single face of a Palestinian "fatality" is shown; (5) the grand total
number of pictures in this gallery is 10 (the number of Israeli pictures --
all of them of close-up portraits of the victims -- is in the hundreds); and
(6) half of the pictures show Palestinians in mass demonstrations or
burials, crowds around a detroyed building or charred car -- i.e., the
blob -- many of them referring to Hamas, Al-Aqsa Brigades, etc.
Please make sure to send a note to CNN to tell them that the only thing they
have managed to do with their Palestinian gallery is to provide yet another
vivid illustration of their abhorent double standards. Let CNN know that we
will not rest until Palestinian VICTIMS are given a gallery equivalent to
the Israeli gallery, and that these furtive, half-hearted attempts are not
helping their case one bit. (Contatct info below.)
So, let's keep our patient fight: so far, we have 16 protest countries:
Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Jordan, Lebanon,
Occupied Palestine, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Syria, Thailand, The
Netherlands, The United Kingdom, and The United States.
If your country is not on the list, please consider heading a chapter in
your country. To find out more about opening a chapter, please go to:
http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/cast/cnnbias8.asp
And to add a little more spice to this call, let them know that as long as
this issue is not resolved, we shall keep on digging up stories that
illustrate CNN's low journalistic standards, and that we shall disseminate
these stories far and wide.
The latest revelation from the past is this little doozy from Couterpunch --
dating back to March 2000. Make sure you forward this to your friends and
colleagues. (See below for full story)
(1) Send an email by entering your letter and contact info in the interface
below and clicking "send"
(2) Call CNN at: (404) 827 - 1500 to protest CNN's double standards
(3) Spreading the word and inviting others to get involved
What does it mean to be a "chapter head"? Initially, it will mean that you
will take on the task of spreading the word about the protest in your
country, via emails, leaflets, and word of mouth. Our aim in the first phase
of this protest is to build enough grass roots support to ignite a
world-wide protest. We hope that within a couple of weeks, this movement
will have spread far enough and gained enough momentum to organize
simultaneous protests against CNN. Once we have reached that level, we plan
to move to the next phase of urging cable carriers in Arab, Muslim, and
other countries to drop CNN for another cable news provider, such as The BBC
or MSNBC. To be able to carry this off, we need a solid base of support on
the ground.
Why the fuss over CNN? (1) CNN is by far the leading international news
network. CNN International is viewed practically all over the world, and its
influence in shaping perception on the conflict is immense; (2) CNN has this
time engaged in a naked act that betrayed its double standards: it refuses
to treat Palestinian victims with the same degree of humanity as Israeli
victims, as is patently illustrated by their refusal to set up a web
memorial for innocent Palestinian victims as it did for innocent Israeli
victims; (3) CNN has pandered long enough and folded enough times to Israeli
pressure, and so we need to send CNN and the rest of the media a clear
message that this kind of submission to Israeli wishes can no longer be
tolerated.
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Palestine Media Watch
http://www.pmwatch.org
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source:
http://www.counterpunch.org/cnnpsyops.html
March 26, 2000
CNN AND PSYOPS
By Alexander Cockburn
Military personnel from the Fourth Psychological
Operations Group based at Fort Bragg, in North
Carolina, have until recently been working in CNN's hq
in Atlanta.
CNN is up in arms about our report in the last issue
of CounterPunch concerning the findings of the Dutch
journalist, Abe de Vries about the presence of US Army
personnel at CNN, owned by Time-Warner. We cited an
article by de Vries which appeared on February 21 in
the reputable Dutch daily newspaper Trouw, originally
translated into English and placed on the web by
Emperor's Clothes. De Vries reported that a handful of
military personnel from the Third Psychological
Operations Battalion, part of the airmobile Fourth
Psychological Operations Group based at Fort Bragg, in
North Carolina, had worked in CNN's hq in Atlanta.
De Vries quoted Major Thomas Collins of the US Army
Information Service as having confirmed the presence
of these Army psy-ops experts at CNN, saying, "Psy-ops
personnel, soldiers and officers, have been working in
CNN's headquarters in Atlanta through our program,
'Training with Industry'. They worked as regular
employees of CNN. Conceivably, they would have worked
on stories during the Kosovo war. They helped in the
production of news."
This particular CounterPunch story was the topic of my
regular weekly broadcast to AM Live, a program of the
South Africa Broadcasting Company in Johannesburg.
Among the audience of this broadcast was CNN's bureau
in South Africa which lost no time in relaying news of
it to CNN hq in Atlanta, and I duly received an angry
phone call from Eason Jordan who identified himself as
CNN's president of newsgathering and international
networks.
Jordan was full of indignation that I had somehow
compromised the reputation of CNN. But in the course
of our conversation it turned out that yes, CNN had
hosted a total of five interns from US army psy-ops,
two in television, two in radio and one in satellite
operations. Jordan said the program had only recently
terminated, I would guess at about the time CNN's
higher management read Abe de Vries's stories.
When I reached De Vries in Belgrade, where's he is
Trouw's correspondent, and told him about CNN's
furious reaction, he stood by his stories and by the
quotations given him by Major Collins.For some days
CNN wouldn't get back to him with a specific reaction
to Collins's confirmation, and when it did, he filed a
later story for Trouw, printed on February 25 noting
that the military worked at CNN in the period from
June 7, (a date confirmed by Eason to me) meaning that
during the war a psy-ops person would have been at CNN
during the last week.
"The facts are", De Vries told me, " that the US Army,
US Special Operations Command and CNN personnel
confirmed to me that military personnel have been
involved in news production at CNN's newsdesks. I
found it simply astonishing. Of course CNN says these
psyops personnel didn't decide anything, write news
reports, etcetera. What else can they say. Maybe it's
true, maybe not. The point is that these kind of close
ties with the army are, in my view, completely
unacceptable for any serious news organization. Maybe
even more astonishing is the complete silence about
the story from the big media. To my knowledge, my
story was not mentioned by leading American or British
newspapers, nor by Reuters or AP."
Here at CounterPunch we agree with Abe de Vries, who
told me he'd originally come upon the story through an
article in the French newsletter, Intelligence
On-line, February 17, which described a military
symposium in Arlington, Virginia, held at the
beginning of February of this year, discussing use of
the press in military operations. Colonel Christopher
St John, commander of the US Army's 4th Psyops Group,
was quoted by Intelligence On-Line's correspondent,
present at the symposium, as having, in the
correspondent's words, "called for greater cooperation
between the armed forces and media giants. He pointed
out that some army PSYOPS personnel had worked for CNN
for several weeks and helped in the production of some
news stories for the network."
So, however insignificant Eason Jordan and other
executives at CNN may now describe the Army psyops
tours at CNN as having been, the commanding officer of
the Psy-ops group thought them as sufficient
significance to mention at a high level Pentagon
seminar about propaganda and psychological warfare. It
could be that CNN was the target of a psyops
penetration and is still too na�ve to figure out what
was going on.
It's hard not to laugh when CNN execs like Eason
Jordan start spouting high-toned stuff about CNN's
principles of objectivity and refusal to spout
government or Pentagon propaganda. The relationship is
most vividly summed up by the fact that Christiane
Amanpour, CNN's leading foreign correspondent, and a
woman whose reports about the fate of Kosovan refugees
did much to fan public appetite for NATO's war, is
literally and figuratively in bed with spokesman for
the US State Department, and a leading propagandist
for NATO during that war, her husband James Rubin.If
CNN truly wanted to maintain the appearance of
objectivity, it would have taken Amanpour off the
story. Amanpour, by the way, is still a passionate
advocate for NATO's crusade, most recently on the
Charlie Rose show.
In the first two weeks of the war in Kosovo CNN
produced thirty articles for the Internet, according
to de Vries, who looked them up for his first story.
An average CNN article had seven mentions of Tony
Blair, NATO spokesmen like Jamie Shea and David Wilby
or other NATO officials. Words like refugees, ethnic
cleansing, mass killings and expulsions were used nine
times on the average. But the so-called Kosovo
Liberation Armmy (0.2 mentions) and the Yugoslav
civilian victims (0.3 mentions) barely existed for
CNN.
During the war on Serbia, as with other recent
conflicts involving the US, wars, CNN's screen was
filled with an interminable procession of US military
officers. On April 27 of last year, Amy Goodman of the
Pacifica radio network, put a good question to Frank
Sesno, who is CNN's senior vice president for
political coverage.
GOODMAN:"If you support the practice of putting
ex-military men -generals - on the payroll to share
their opinion during a time of war, would you also
support putting peace activists on the payroll to give
a different opinion during a time of war? To be
sitting there with the military generals talking about
why they feel that war is not appropriate?"
FRANK SESNO: "We bring the generals in because of
their expertise in a particular area. We call them
analysts. We don't bring them in as advocates. In
fact, we actually talk to them about that - they're
not there as advocates."
Exactly a week before Sesno said this, CNN had
featured as one of its military analysts, Lt Gen Dan
Benton, US Army Retired.
BENTON: "I don't know what our countrymen that are
questioning why we're involved in this conflict are
thinking about. As I listened to this press conference
this morning with reports of rapes burning, villages
being burned and this particularly incredible report
of blood banks, of blood being harvested from young
boys for the use of Yugoslav forces, I just got madder
and madder. The United States has a responsibility as
the only superpower in the world, and when we learn
about these things, somebody has got to stand up and
say, that's enough, stop it, we aren't going to put up
with this. And so the United States is fulfilling its
leadership responsibility with our NATO allies and are
trying to stop these incredible atrocities."
Please note what CNN's supposedly non-advocatory
analyst Benton was ranting about: a particularly
bizarre and preposterous NATO propaganda item about
700 Albanian boys being used as human blood banks for
Serb fighters.
So much for the "non-advocate" CNN. CP
====================
source: http://www.fair.org/activism/cnn-psyops.html
FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting 130 W. 25th
Street New York, NY 10001
ACTION ALERT:
Why Were Government Propaganda Experts Working On News
At CNN?
March 27, 2000
Reports in the Dutch newspaper Trouw (2/21/00,
2/25/00) and France's Intelligence Newsletter
(2/17/00) have revealed that several officers from the
US Army's 4th Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Group
at Ft. Bragg worked in the news division at CNN's
Atlanta headquarters last year, starting in the final
days of the Kosovo War.
In the U.S. media, so far only Alexander Cockburn,
columnist for The Nation and co-editor of the
newsletter CounterPunch, has picked up on the story.
Cockburn's column on the subject is available at
http://www.counterpunch.org.
The story is disturbing. In the 1980s, officers from
the 4th Army PSYOPS group staffed the National
Security Council's Office of Public Diplomacy (OPD), a
shadowy government propaganda agency that planted
stories in the U.S. media supporting the Reagan
Administration's Central America policies.
A senior US official described OPD as a "vast
psychological warfare operation of the kind the
military conducts to influence a population in enemy
territory." (Miami Herald, 7/19/87) An investigation
by the congressional General Accounting Office found
that OPD had engaged in "prohibited, covert propaganda
activities," and the office was soon shut down as a
result of the Iran-Contra investigations. But the 4th
PSYOPS group still operates.
CNN has always maintained a close relationship with
the Pentagon. Getting access to top military officials
is a necessity for a network that stakes its
reputation on being first on the ground during wars
and other military operations.
What makes the CNN story especially troubling is the
fact that the network allowed the Army's covert
propagandists to work in its headquarters, where they
learned the ins and outs of CNN's operations. Even if
the PSYOPS officers working in the newsroom did not
influence news reporting, did the network allow the
military to conduct an intelligence-gathering mission
against CNN itself?
For instance, one PSYOPS officer worked in CNN's
satellite division. According to Intelligence
Newsletter, rear admiral Thomas Steffens, a
psychological warfare expert in the Special Operations
Command, recently told a PSYOPS conference that the
military needed to find ways to "gain control" over
commercial news satellites to help bring down an
"informational cone of silence" over regions where
special operations were taking place.
An unofficial strategy paper published by the U.S.
Naval War College in 1996 and written by an Army
officer ("Military Operations in the CNN World: Using
the Media as a Force Multiplier") urged military
commanders to find ways to "leverage the vast
resources of the fourth estate" for the purposes of
"communicating the [mission's] objective and endstate,
boosting friendly morale, executing more effective
psychological operations, playing a major role in
deception of the enemy, and enhancing intelligence
collection."
ACTION: Please write to CNN and ask why the network
allowed government propaganda specialists to work in
their news division.
As always, please remember that letters are taken more
seriously if they maintain a professional tone. Please
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