Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Bloggers Uncover Possible CNN Video Fraud

More "Fauxtography" from Hamas. These guys know that the credulous MSM will accept their outrageously faked videos at face value and pass them on the West as "news". While these fakes are regularly exposed by the blogosphere, the MSM never admits to being hoodwinked, or more likely, knowingly passing on fakes. And so the American public never gets a true report from our mainstream "newsmen".

If it were not for the hundreds, if not thousands of conservative, freedom loving bloggers working day and night to inform the populace of the Global Jihad, the West would be much further down the road to dhimmitude under Islam.


FROM ISRAELNATIONALNEWS.COM:

Bloggers Uncover Possible CNN Video Fraud

by Maayana Miskinif
(IsraelNN.com)

The popular American blog Little Green Footballs (LGF), run by Charles Johnson, has uncovered several discrepancies in a video report from Gaza that purports to show the death and burial of a 12-year-old boy. The video was aired on CNN and Channel 4 news in Britain.

The dramatic video shows last-ditch efforts to save the life of young Mahmoud Mashharawi, news anchors said. However, Mahmoud cannot be revived, and the video moves on to show his grieving family and the beginnings of a hasty burial. The video footage was allegedly recorded by none other than Mahmoud's older brother, Ashraf Mashharawi, a freelance photographer in Gaza.

The Mashharawi family claimed that Mahmoud and a 14-year-old cousin were killed by an Israeli drone while playing on their rooftop. Relatives blamed a small guided missile fired by the unmanned drone for the boys' death. Their claim was repeated by news anchors, with a British reporter making the dramatic proclamation that, “Israel, equipped with the most technologically advanced guided missiles and video target selection that America can supply had selected, targeted and killed two more children in Gaza.”

The family did not explain how it was known that a drone was responsible, and no member of the family claimed to have witnessed the attack itself. IDF spokesmen say they are unfamiliar with any such incident.

Johnson began questioning the report soon after it aired. It opens with doctors supposedly making frantic efforts to save the child, but as talkbacks on the LGF site pointed out, the doctors were lightly massaging the child's stomach and not frantically pounding his chest as one might expect.

Other members of the site soon raised similar questions, asking why the boy did not appear to be receiving any transfusions or medication while doctors reportedly tried to save him, why the rooftop on which he was allegedly killed appeared damaged over only a small area and why pictures of the boy showed no injury to his face or head while an accompanying CNN report said he had been “hit in the head and all over his body by shrapnel.”
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