Jem
03-26-2003, 09:06 AM
Less than 24 hours after the first U.S. missiles landed in Iraq, ABC's Peter Jennings highlighted video of an injured young Iraqi girl in a Baghdad hospital, even though he conceded “it's a little out of context” and “we cannot tell you what these pictures represent, except some poor child has been hurt.” Jennings proceeded to relay the Iraqi regime's claim “that 37 people have been injured in the course of attacks on Baghdad today.”
ABC's Peter Jennings highlights video of an injured Iraqi girl in Baghdad hospital.
Jennings showcased the images at about 7:15pm EST on Thursday. ABC's audience saw 28 seconds of video showing a young girl, probably about 6 or 7-years-old, lying on her side in a hospital bed, facing the camera, with a bandage on her arm, then video from the other side of her focused on a big bandage in the middle of her back and, finally, a look at an adult woman laying on back with her entire stomach area covered in bandages. An on-screen graphic read: “Al Yarmouk Hospital; Baghdad, Iraq.” (There was no credit for a source of the video.)
Over the video, Jennings announced: “We have been getting some video in from Baghdad at the moment, from both al-Alabia [sp a guess], which is a new television cable satellite network in the Middle East, funded in Saudi Arabia. Now you have two, al-Alabia from Saudi Arabia and al-Jazeera, which is owned by the Qataris, where Central Command is located. We cannot tell you what these pictures represent, except some poor child has been hurt. We do not know how, but they are reporting tonight that 37 people have been injured in the course of attacks on Baghdad today and that is all we can tell you. It's a little out of context, but there it is.”
Seconds later, Jennings went to a taped piece from Baghdad-based freelance reporter Richard Engel. His story included different video from the hospital, but featured shots of only the very same child and adult. Engel explained that the video was obtained during a visit to the hospital led by Iraq's Ministry of Information.
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030321.asp
ABC's Peter Jennings highlights video of an injured Iraqi girl in Baghdad hospital.
Jennings showcased the images at about 7:15pm EST on Thursday. ABC's audience saw 28 seconds of video showing a young girl, probably about 6 or 7-years-old, lying on her side in a hospital bed, facing the camera, with a bandage on her arm, then video from the other side of her focused on a big bandage in the middle of her back and, finally, a look at an adult woman laying on back with her entire stomach area covered in bandages. An on-screen graphic read: “Al Yarmouk Hospital; Baghdad, Iraq.” (There was no credit for a source of the video.)
Over the video, Jennings announced: “We have been getting some video in from Baghdad at the moment, from both al-Alabia [sp a guess], which is a new television cable satellite network in the Middle East, funded in Saudi Arabia. Now you have two, al-Alabia from Saudi Arabia and al-Jazeera, which is owned by the Qataris, where Central Command is located. We cannot tell you what these pictures represent, except some poor child has been hurt. We do not know how, but they are reporting tonight that 37 people have been injured in the course of attacks on Baghdad today and that is all we can tell you. It's a little out of context, but there it is.”
Seconds later, Jennings went to a taped piece from Baghdad-based freelance reporter Richard Engel. His story included different video from the hospital, but featured shots of only the very same child and adult. Engel explained that the video was obtained during a visit to the hospital led by Iraq's Ministry of Information.
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030321.asp