Is it true that this CNN report on shelling in Israel was staged?

A video spread over the network on which the voice behind the scenes dictates to the reporter and operator of the American television channel how to behave during the recording so that the frames look more spectacular. We checked the authenticity of this video.

As reported in a number of Telegram channels, a video leaked on the Internet with the original sound of one of the CNN reports from the border areas of Israel, where Hamas fighters invaded on October 7. In a half-minute video, the sounds of shelling are heard, shells are broken somewhere nearby, and all this time a certain person in English tells the operator and journalist, where to run, where to lie down, how to keep a camera, what to say, etc. Authorities of viral publications claim that this is a typical production of Western media to “form public opinion”.

With a similar commentation, the video was distributed by Russian-speaking Telegram channels, in particular "Chinese Khiznoj"(308,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Ostashko! Important"(114 000),"Cat Kostyan"(88 000),"Bocharik (yeah, the same)"(81 000),"Rogandar News"(50,000) and"The combat zone"(43,000).

At the epicenter of history was reportage CNN International correspondent Clarissa Ward, who, together with her film crew, was forced to look for a shelter during a massive missile shelling near the border of Israel and the Gaza Sector on October 9. On CNN resources, reports were posted in two versions: abbreviated And expanded. The shooting came out really action -packed: the journalists had to jump into a roadside ditch in order to protect themselves from the potential hit of fragments. In the airtime version, of course, there are no instructor teams-they, as follows from the publications in Telegram channels, only CNN employees should have heard. But in the merged version, these instructions say for themselves: “Well, Jerry, tell the operator to be Clarissa in the frame”, “Look around, Jerry, look around as if you are in danger”, “Well, it’s beautiful, it’s a“ monetary ”frame,“ Can you increase the volume of these explosions? ”

At first glance, the oral recommendations of a certain instructor look harmonious in combination with the video, but there are several important circumstances.

Firstly, it was a direct inclusion of a journalist, and not a pre-mounted program. It is extremely difficult to carry out such a production on the air, because at any time an awkward pause may occur due to misunderstanding or another error will occur. If the actors know their roles so poorly that the instructor has to be conducted by every movement, then such experiments are not suitable for live broadcast. In the original video From CNN you can hear the leading news in the studio John Burman gets in touch With Clarissa Ward, and at that moment it is discovered that she and her colleagues hid in the ditch.

Secondly, the very availability of a video combined with audio roads of the briefing looks strange. If members of the film crew received any secret instructions to their headphones, then this was clearly not supposed to be recorded and mounted with etheric video.

In the Google Street View service, you can see place, where did the report come from: at the intersection of the two highways south of the border Israeli city of Deero, who has become One of the main targets of the Hamas attack. The militants also visited the indicated section of the highway - Hence the numerous burned cars in the frame. On October 9, the Armed Forces of Israel Spended The stripping of the terrain in the area of ​​the cut, there were battles, so the situation in which CNN reporters fell does not look amazing.

As in the earliest publications In the social network X (former Twitter), thanks to which one and a half -minute video with the alleged briefing has become viral and in other posts with this audio (but not in the original from CNN) in the upper left corner of the image you can see the The Quartering logo.

The account of the same name was FirstWho posted this version of the video on October 11 at 01:07 Moscow time with the signature “CNN caught by setting up an attack on the camera in Israel!”. The comments also post link On a full, 14-minute video on the The Quartering channel on YouTube. According to the description, the channel explores the topics of the game industry, comics and the world as a whole, and also engages in “sharp jokes”. An account with about 1.5 million subscribers belongs Jeremy Hambble - American blogger, known for his right views and love for The theories of the conspiracy. Hambble, supporter of the ex-president of the United States Donald Trump, often criticizes his eternal opponents, CNN journalists (the politician himself earlier accused TV channel in the spread of fake news). So in the aforementioned 14-minute video, the blogger reflects on the methods of work CNN and calls the report fake. Nevertheless, about an hour after the publication in X under the post appeared comment From The Quartering, which was said that "of course, the voice behind the scenes is not real." In the staging nature of the report, the blogger, however, does not doubt, but does not give any evidence.

In response to a request from Associated Press, CNN representative Emily Kun She saidthat the audio recording "is fabricated, inaccurate and irresponsible distortes the reality of the moment that was broadcast live."

Thus, in Telegram channels, an mounted video from an American blogger was distributed, which recognized the deliberate imposition on the original video of the CNN sound path, which has nothing to do with reporting.

Photo on the cover: Screenshot CNN

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