[Reader-list] Fw: FWD (This might be of interest for documentary students)

[Geeta Patel]

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> Hi everyone,
>   Thought you'd like to know how news is really not news but creative
> constructions.
> -----------------------
>
> Last week the German tv-channel "ARD" showed in its programm "Panorama" an
> analysis of the whole film material on the "Dancing Palestinians" which
> was far
> more than what was shown on tv. On those complete sequences one could see
> that
> it wasn't a big crowd that was dancing and applauding, but only a very
> small
> group of mostly children. They were stirred up by one young man. On the
few
> scenes that weren't close-ups of this group, one could see, that the rest
> of the
> street was calm and people passing by were rather puzzled when they saw
> the the
> crowd cheering. When one woman who was part of this group was intervied by
> other
> journalists later, she told that those who made this film promised to give
> her
> some cake when she joined the crowd, but in fact she hadn't been happy but
> shocked when she had heard of the attack.
> So "Panorama" suspected that the "Dancing Palestinians " were a creation
> of the
> news-agencies who send these sequences to tv broadcasters all over the
> world.
>
> A short (German) summary of the program:
> http://www.ndrtv.de/panorama/sendung/medien.html
>
>
> Barbara Fischer
> Hamburg
>
>