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CNN Airs (Obviously) Faked Hamas Propaganda As "Freelance" Video of the "Human Cost" of the Gaza Conflict

News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Jan 9, 2009 8:55 AM EST
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I saw this segment earlier on CNN and wondered at the time how easily this could have been faked. Pretty darned easily, as LGF discovered, and the questions start where the fakery seems most obvious:

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Killfile

I don't know what those "doctors" are doing but the folks at LGF are right, it's sure not CPR. Looks like a fake to me too... though not a terribly useful one. What's the point of faking something like this when there are bound to be plenty of the real thing if you just leave someone with a camcorder in a hospital for a day or two.

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Reply#1 - Fri Jan 9, 2009 9:22 AM EST
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E.D.Kain

The Palestinians have made an art out of the Boy Who Cried Wolf...which is strange, given all the actual bad things that happen there.

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  • 7 votes
#1.1 - Fri Jan 9, 2009 4:37 PM EST
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FestiveWarrior

WTG Killfile.

This is good information.

I am voting for this.

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  • 5 votes
#1.2 - Fri Jan 9, 2009 6:30 PM EST
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alkimija

Fake atrocity videos seem unfortunately to be all-too de rigeur with Hamas and their supporters.

Good catch.

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  • 6 votes
Reply#2 - Fri Jan 9, 2009 12:30 PM EST
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Waynester

Well I'll be damned. This the first time I've attempted to seed a link and had Killfile beat me to it. Good seed KF ( BTW your avatar always reminds me of Detective Bayliss (Kyle Secor) from Homicide: Life on the street)

It should be noted that this is not the first time that fauxtography has made it in to the MSM. Reuters was a big offender during the Lebanon conflict and the Iraq war.

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  • 9 votes
Reply#3 - Fri Jan 9, 2009 4:16 PM EST
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Killfile

Yea, but Reuters was caught with a photo-shopped image or twelve. Faking a video is a good bit harder.

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  • 5 votes
#3.1 - Fri Jan 9, 2009 4:40 PM EST
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Fada

This doesn,t mean that blood shedding is everywhere.   Obviously there are tens of atrocious incidents everyday that they couldn,t catch in the proper time or place , so they are simulating them!       Silly , they could,ve waited a little may be they get a true misstle!

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  • 2 votes
Reply#4 - Fri Jan 9, 2009 5:24 PM EST
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Paul Lucero

Turn your TV off!

The Middle East is a lost cause!

America should stop all efforts to influence any out come in this human hell hole.

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  • 1 vote
Reply#5 - Fri Jan 9, 2009 10:28 PM EST
{"commentId":4747214,"authorDomain":"drfade3000"}
Fada

Best wish, if they only stopped supporting the aggrssor power and widening the hell hole , something good may come out of it

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    #5.1 - Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:20 AM EST
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    {"commentId":4759384,"authorDomain":"waynester"}
    Waynester

    "I am shocked, shocked that there's gambling at Rick's"

    Faking a video is a good bit harder.

    Maybe CNN is trying to catch up with France 2

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    • 4 votes
    Reply#6 - Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:35 AM EST
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    insert_name_here

    Not the first time, probably not the last time...

    Great seed, KF.

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    • 1 vote
    Reply#7 - Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:41 PM EST
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