CNN/Reuters/Bin Laden video: Update…
The New York Times’ Brian Stelter writes about the CNN/Reuters/Bin Laden mess from Friday…
A CNN correspondent did obtain a transcript of bin Laden’s message and used archival footage to report on it. But television relies on fresh visuals; without them, CNN, which is owned by Time Warner, continued its regular news coverage while Fox News Channel and MSNBC covered the bin Laden tape as breaking news.
In explaining the decision to cancel the Reuters contract the week before, Tony Maddox, a CNN International executive, had said that the company would make significant investments in its own news-gathering capabilities and reduce its reliance on outside agencies.
Without the wire service, CNN was put in an unpleasant position. Through an arrangement with the Arabic news network Al Jazeera, it was able to show the new video half an hour after its competitors. Al Jazeera, too, was broadcasting the Reuters video.
CNN I-Report is a big JOKE… the video was offered to CNN by this way but wasn’t answered… a Phone call to Reuters was making the history minutes later…
Comment by Rodrigo — September 10, 2007 @ 11:47 am
Do you have proof of this? If so, send it to me…
Comment by Spud — September 10, 2007 @ 12:06 pm
A friend in Europe was publishing a screengran at 19:49 central europe time (+2GMT = 13:49 ET) and in the lapse before the full publication, he says that was sending mails to Reuters, AP and CNN-I Report but no one was answering.
http://twitter.com/BreakingNewsOn/statuses/253312392
In the next hour, he was waiting for a answer but no one was reply the email… so he found the Reuters HQ telephone on Internet. There was a negotiation and one hour later Reuters was publishing the video.
Comment by Rodrigo — September 10, 2007 @ 2:44 pm
Reuters was publishing the first alert at 15:07 ET
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1181/1356470316_4873280fb7_o.png
10 minutes later the video was on the air…
I was in a same situation days ago w/ some pictures about Hurricane Henriette… CNN I-Report was asking my age and if i was made the pictures 24 hours later!…
So.. its a joke…
Comment by Rodrigo — September 10, 2007 @ 2:48 pm
Can you put me in touch with this person? Email me his email or some way to contact him?
Comment by Spud — September 10, 2007 @ 3:41 pm
geez is CNN-I report the way to get a vid of osama bin laden? If I was sent the vid through that means I would question it and refuse. If one has NOTHING to hide they would send through legit NEWS means, NOT a website reporting method.
Comment by Harry — September 10, 2007 @ 7:11 pm
Perhaps they did not know the proper way? I don’t know.
Comment by Spud — September 10, 2007 @ 8:06 pm
Ieps… My friend saw the video and was stuned!… He did not know what to do… so… He was trying to contact several news orgs… CNN, AP, Reuters, Al Jazeera… but no one was answering…
I told him about u… he will back in some hours
BTW… “THE DOORS ARE OPEN”… second video is ‘imminent’… Perhaps minutes now… a directory w/ all the propaganda videos is now open.. Im waiting and refreshing every 15 seconds for to get the new video.. :P
Comment by Rodrigo — September 11, 2007 @ 12:13 am
And ieps.. second video is out… 47 minutes long… Big non news… nothing new… next
Comment by Rodrigo — September 11, 2007 @ 1:48 am
Haha… watching the ‘CNN revenge’. They have the video before no one thanks to Laura Mansfield, a CNN regular contributor.
But this video is so cheap. The first one was the ‘2007 speech’.
Comment by Rodrigo — September 11, 2007 @ 3:56 am