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Title: Russian Cameraman: CNN Aired Misleading Footage
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Prison Planet
URL Source: http://www.prisonplanet.com/russian ... -aired-misleading-footage.html
Published: Aug 12, 2008
Author: Paul Joseph Watson
Post Date: 2008-08-12 23:00:32 by TwentyTwelve
Keywords: CNN, Media Whores, Caught Lying
Views: 194
Comments: 10
Russian Cameraman: CNN Aired Misleading Footage Broadcaster showed Georgian forces attacking South Ossetia, claimed it was Russians attacking Gori Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Tuesday, August 12, 2008 CNN is airing misleading footage of the war between Georgia and Russia, skewing public opinion in favor of the Georgians, according to a Russia Today cameraman interviewed this morning. The Russia Today satellite TV company aired the interview on its English language news channel but the story is yet to appear on the Internet or in any other news outlet. The Russian cameraman charged that CNN had used his footage of Georgian forces attacking Russian civilians in Tskhinvali, the provincial capital of South Ossetia, but then claimed it showed Russians attacking Georgians in the Georgian town of Gori. The Georgian assault on Tskhinvali, described as an act of genocide and a war crime by Russian officials and other eyewitnesses, led to the slaughter of at least 2,000 civilians. The fact that Georgia, backed by the U.S. and Israel, were responsible for the provocation that led to the Russian response, has been buried by the majority of western corporate media. Western media bias to skew popular opinion in favor of the U.S. and NATO client state Georgia was evident from the very start of the conflict. As we reported yesterday, a prime example of media bias in shielding Georgia from responsibility for the carnage is the fact that news outlets like the BBC continue to report that thousands of civilians were killed in Georgia, with the obvious inference being that these are victims of the Russian onslaught. But these victims were not killed in Georgia, they were killed in Ossetia - by Georgian forces. As the Chimes of Freedom Blog elaborates, “While the Ossetians claimed over 1000 dead the BBC neither reported this or any newsreel coming out of Ossetia showing the destruction caused by the Georgian shelling of the breakaway republic. All we are getting is one-sided reports of the destruction being caused by the Russians.” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev this morning ordered an immediate halt to Russia’s military operations against Georgia. “The purpose of the operation has been achieved…. The security of our peacekeeping forces and the civilian population has been restored,” Interfax quoted him as saying. UPDATE: Russia Today has now posted the following on their website and uploaded a video. CNN accused of using misleading war footage American broadcaster CNN has been accused of using misleading footage in their coverage of the conflict in South Ossetia. A Russian cameraman says footage of wrecked tanks and ruined buildings, which was purported to be the town of Gori, was in fact the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali. Gori was said to be about to fall under the control of the Russian army but the cameraman says the video was actually shot in Tskhinvali, which had been flattened by Georgian shelling. Aleksandr Zhukov, from the Russiya Al-Yaum channel, said: “When we arrived and news came that Gori was being shelled, I saw my footage. I said: that’s not Gori! That’s Tskhinvali. Having crawled through the length and breadth of Tskhinvali, I don’t need much to tell from which point this or that footage was recorded. I can swear in front of any tribunal. I can point at this location on the map of the town, because I and the cameraman of the Rossiya Broadcaster showed Georgian forces attacking South Ossetia, claimed it was Russians attacking Gori 
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The CFR-Trilat controlled media LIES?! LOL
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What % of Americans know this?
Never ever trust the Russians. They are still our enemy and always have been.
It's only available today: Tarpley for 2:45 on Alex Jones. Listen to it.
We cannot afford peace at any price. - Newt Gingrich, May 29, 1998
The Military & CNN by Alexander Cockburn 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, U.S. 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, 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.''' Please note what CNN's supposedly non-advocatory analyst Benton was ranting about: a particularly preposterous NATO propaganda item about 700 Albanian boys being used as human blood banks for Serb fighters. http://www.commondreams.org/views/032300-107.htm
I heard it. Great show.
Less than 1% more than likely.
Less than 1% more than likely. That sounds about right.
Kosovo redux. Somehow a local screaming: "What have you NATO idiots done! Thanks to you more of us are dead!" Translated into: "Oh please help us NATO, those evil Serbs are raping cattle and stampeding the women! We're so glad you are here!"
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It's only available today: Tarpley for 2:45 on Alex Jones. Listen to it.
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What % of Americans know this?
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
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The CFR-Trilat controlled media LIES?! LOL
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