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

[Boud Roukema]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Geeta Patel wrote:

> Subject: Fwd: FWD (This might be of interest for documentary students)
> > 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

Interesting. This is compatible with the report on Indymedia Israel:

http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/display.php3?article_id=7650

> Israel Stages Anti-US Demonstration  
> by Geore F. 11:31am Thu Sep 20 '01 
> address: Gaza, Palestine k_gii at yahoo.com 
> 
> This might prove interesting to analysts; it is drawn from the 14
> September issue of the Jerusalem Times which was delivered to my house
> and scanned this morning. It is on the front page of Vol.  VIII,
> no. 397:
> 
> Israel Stages Anti-US Demonstration 
> 
> A team sent by the Israel Defense Ministry to film Palestinian
> children rejoicing in East Jerusalem staged the event that was later
> circulated in the US and around the world.
> 
> A member of the team approached the Juhaina
> Sweets Shop and gave the owner 200 shekels and asked him to distrïbute
> the sweets to the children, according to the owner of the shop.
> 
> Veteran Israeli political analyst Meron Benvenisti, a former deputy
> mayor of Jerusalem, noted in Ha'aretz (Thursday Sept.  13):
> 
> "A team from the Spokesman's Office of the Israel Defense Forces was
> sent to film the scenes of joy and candy being handed out in East
> Jerusalem `for public relations purposes" Benvenisti wrote.
> 
> - TJT Staff 
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