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TO:    David bar-Ilan, Eye on Media, Jlem Post
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-757572; FAX:  972-6-757554
DATE:  March 1, 1994
RE:    CNN
REF:   CNN Headline news, Mar 1, 1994 20:30+  Mid-East TV
       Jim Clancy, from Tunis
CC:   David Bedein, Israel Resource, Bet Agron; 02-247803; 257303 
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CNN Headline news, Mar 1, 1994 20:30+  Mid-East TV
       Jim Clancy, from Tunis
Quotes from my notes; not from a recording of the broadcast.

Jim Clancy:  "... massacre by an Israeli settler in front ofIsraeli troops ... " [underlining indicates vocal emphasis is bynewscaster]
                     
COMMENT:  Again:  no soldier witnessed the shooting.  There were 2soldiers stationed inside; 2 outside; 2 arrived late.
The implication of the newscast is that Israeli soldiers saw themassacre and did not intervene;  that is blatantly false.

CONTEXT OF NEWS REPORT:  Jim Clancy, reporting from Tunis, in apiece that could have been tailored by Arafat and probably was.
His report is practically an editorial, arguing  that:
The USA must pressure Israel to negotiate now on disarmingsettlers and removing settlements, otherwise Arafat will beimperiled.
Clancy:  "The armed setters and settlements have become a lifeand death issue" ["    "   indicates `appoximate quote']
Clancy also made an usually blatant reference to (quotingapproximately, from memory "President Clinton's National Security advisers that served the hard-line Israeli lobby for years"
The report began with a cloying picture of Arafat embracing "hisorphans", children in Tunis.

Later in the show Gail Young, speaking from Efrat, narrated afeature on West Bank settlers.  There were 2 interviews withsettlers who, if they're not being paid to be provacateurs, shouldbe:  one kid says "it was a courageous act"; one goat with anIsraeli? accent says "he didn't kill enough".
At Efrat Nadia Matar made a good impression, and did her best tobreak up a remark by some slob from the USA who said "it [themassacre] doesn't bother me".
Gail Young did not seem unfair; she remarked on the difference ofopinion as an indication that one can't generalize about settlers.


In a third feature Reid Collins, the anchorman, interviewed Prof.Baram(?); the interviewer was reasonably sympathetic, and Barammade a good impression. 
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SUMMARY:  I've just started watching CNN; I get the impressionthat they're not anti-Israel per se, but that they do reserve acertain quota of slots for features, with compliant newscasters, that are anti-Israel.

                             
