[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Fake but accurate

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

There's more information here:

CNN busted running phony Gaza propaganda, doesn't fess up

ABB, you may be interested in this.

[SouthDixie]

In one instance, the news last night questioned the videos authenticity by how the compressions were applied trying to revive the child.
If compressions are administered to a healthy working heart, man or child, it can kill them.
The roof would not have been my first choice of comfort when dodging rockets.
If this is a fake video, which it probably is, it is sleazy of the producer attempting to profit from war.

[chargers fan]

I wonder if there was Free Republic in the days of Hearst if we would have had the Spanish American War.

[james500]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/09/gaza.video.accusations/index.html

“The video footage appeared on CNN television networks and on CNN.com for 24 hours before CNN removed the material in the belief that it had no further right to use it. CNN, standing by the video, has since reposted it. Some bloggers had cited its removal as evidence that CNN did not stand by its reporting.”

No further right to use it because the good doctor didn’t want it to be shown over and over? Uh huh. Instead of saying, “we ironed out the contractual issues and now have right of broadcast”, they pegged the re-release to “standing by the video”. They’re not even trying to sound convincing.

“Responding to accusations that the resuscitation efforts of Mashharawi’s brother appeared inauthentic, Martin said that, based on his years of reporting from Gaza, doctors often go through such efforts even with little hope that a patient can be saved.”

Doctors often go through inauthentic resuscitation efforts? Futile, perhaps, but inauthentic? And what a strange way to put it,”EVEN with little hope”. So they fake it often, even when they don’t have to because there’s no hope of resuscitation?

How strange.

[popdonnelly]

A perfect example of how easy it is to manipulate the news media. Particularly if the news media wants to believe what you’re peddling.

[nuconvert]

I’m new to this controversial video. But what if they were all staging the CPR on a boy that they all knew was already dead? I mean he could have already been pronounced dead and then the cameraman could have asked the Dr’s or other staff to stage the lifesaving event so he could get it on film for propaganda purposes.
It doesn’t mean the boy is any less dead, it means that they used his body for propaganda purposes.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

The guy in this fox news article is the same guy from this manufactured CNN video.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2161623/posts

abb, I dunno if you want to ping your media deathwatch list again, or do it in the other thread. The fact that this looks to be the same guy is suspicious to me.

IMHO, this is "green helmet guy" (salam daher) all over again.