Erroneous CNN footage angers Serbs
Published: 02 August, 2008, 03:46
Some of the footage that the CNN news channel used in its Wednesday report on protests in Belgrade over the arrest of war leader Radovan Karadzic was not actually from the Serbian capital.
The dramatic shots of burning barricades and water cannons used against protesters were taken during unrelated riots in another European capital – Hungary’s Budapest.
The mistake angered some Serb activists who said the channel made the event look more violent then it really was.
CNN officials so far have not commented on the controversy.
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Like it is a new phenomenon! CNN routinely used pictures of marauding Croatian forces destroying Serbian villages in the civil war of 1991-1995, and declared them to be Serbian attrocities! Naturally, anyone who speaks the language and knows the territory could have easily known who is who. No complaints ever made a difference. It almost looks like CNN had an objective to make Serbs look bad, and to do that any pictures would do! Since there were so many attrocities committed against Serbs in Croatia, they had plenty of material. Unfortunatelly, they never told who was the victim. The pictures are just some form of background, to fill the screen.