Ming Inspector Zheng Shujing
At a glance
- There is no empirical claim that the video of Juan Arredondo's interview is posed, and the change in the background of the video is the effect of the camera zooming in/out.
- The video comes from Italian media outlet Internazionale reporter Annaliza Camilla, who posted two videos on Internazionale's official website about Arredondo being rescued.
- Although Ukrainian officials claim that Brent Reynolds' death was related to the Russian army, Camili learned from front-line reporters that the Tug-of-War between Russia and Ukraine had been going on for many days, and the identity of the shooter remained a mystery.
Event background
On March 13, local time, Agence France-Presse, the New York Times, the BBC and other media reported that an American journalist was shot and killed in the northwest suburbs of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, and another person was injured.
On the same day, a video circulated widely on Twitter, allegedly an interview with the injured person. In the video, a man who identifies himself as Juan lies on a surgical bed, facing the camera sideways, and while receiving treatment, describes the incident: "We crossed the first bridge in Ilpin and intended to film the refugees leaving. We got into a car and someone offered to take us to another bridge, and then we crossed a checkpoint and they started shooting at us. The driver turned the front of the car, and they continued to shoot — originally we had two people, my friend Brent Renaud. He was hit and left behind. ”
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This video triggered a heated discussion among netizens about the relevant events. But at the same time, several Twitter users pointed out that the background picture before and after the video was inconsistent, and it was suspected of posing: in the first 3 seconds of the picture, there seemed to be a shelf full of items in the left rear of the respondent, and by the 17th second, the shelf seemed to have disappeared.
Are shelves really gone? Who posted this video? Is it trustworthy?
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Backgrounds inconsistent?
In fact, as long as you carefully observe the details of the picture in the video, you can find that the so-called "shelf disappears" statement does not hold up. In the 16th second of the video, behind the white-gloved medical workers, a corner of the goods on the shelves can be faintly seen.
In the 16th second of the video, the goods on the shelves flash behind the medical workers (yellow box part).
As the camera is suddenly pulled away, at the junction of 16 to 17 seconds of the video, the white-gloved medical worker in the picture happens to block the shelf behind it, making it look as if it has disappeared. However, it is worth noting that the wooden boards pasted with white paper that once appeared next to the shelves did not disappear in the picture. And the other details in the video, such as the medicine on the medicine rack on the right rear of the injured person, the medical staff wearing pink clothes, the objects hanging on the isolation curtain, the expression of the injured person, the right hand posture wearing black gloves, and the relative position of the arms of the blue gloved doctor who is being rescued behind him have not changed significantly.
Compared with the close-up (top) and long-range (bottom), there was no significant change in the drug on the right rear shelf of the respondent, the object hanging from the curtain, the right hand posture of the respondent wearing black gloves, and the relative position of the arms of the blue-gloved doctor who was rescuing behind him.
The wooden planks with white paper glued to the shelves where the video begins to appear do not disappear in the vista (above).
In addition, at 16 to 17 seconds in the video, the interviewee is narrating the plot of his "getting into a car", and the voice here is generally synchronized with the shape of the respondent's mouth in the picture.
Where does the video come from?
After the attack, on March 13, The New York Times published an obituary mourning the death of former colleague Brent Renault. The obituary mentions Juan Arredondo, who traveled with Renault, an American freelance photographer and adjunct associate professor at Columbia University's School of Journalism. According to The New York Times, the video of Arredondo's interview first came from the Twitter account of an Italian journalist named Annalisa Camilli.
After verification, at 8:04 p.m. Beijing time on March 13, Kamilly did upload a video on his personal Twitter account, and the content was no different from the online video. "Two American journalists were shot by Russian troops at the Ilping Bridge, one was treated at the Kiev Main Hospital and the other was shot in the neck," Kamili said.
Screenshot of The Kamili Twitter account.
Although Camilla's account is not officially verified by Twitter, he reported working for an Italian media outlet called Internazionale. The latter has not only been certified on Twitter, but also received attention from Poynter, a well-known media education institution in the United States.
Searching for Camille's name on internazionale's website confirms his identity as Internazionale's journalist. On March 14, Kamilly published an article on Internazionale titled "The Story of the Attack on Two American Journalists Near Kiev," in which he embedded two videos published in his name, one of which was a video of an interview he posted on Twitter, and the other showing the injured Aredondo being transported by ambulance to Ohmatdyt Hospital in Kiev.
In the 10th to 17th seconds of this video of Arredondo, viewers can clearly see the background of the previous video obscured by medical staff, including the shelves and the staff sitting at the table.
Another video taken by Camili shows the background of the previous video obscured by medical staff from different perspectives.
According to the article, Arredondo arrived at the hospital at about 12:30 noon on the 13th local time in Kiev, and his lower back and legs were injured, but he was conscious. After two hours of treatment, Arredondo was out of danger. His companion Renault, according to a local doctor named Danylo Shapovalov, died instantly after being shot in the head, a different account than Arredondo's account. Although Ukrainian officials claimed that the attack was carried out by Russian troops, Kamili learned from front-line reporters that the Tug-of-War between Russia and Ukraine had been going on for many days, and the identity of the shooter was still difficult to confirm.
At the same time, Kamili's article also mentions that after Renault's death, Oleksandr Markouchin, the mayor of Irpin, issued a ban on the media from approaching the area. Agence France-Presse also cross-corroborated the news on March 15, releasing a video of Makushen's appearance, showing him calling on media staff and Ukrainians not to take pictures of soldiers and military installations again, so as not to leak more information to the Russian military.
Mayor Ilpin Makushen declared that journalists were forbidden to approach Ilpin.
In summary, there is no empirical evidence for the online rumor that the video of Aredondo was interviewed by the internet, and the change in the background picture of the video is the effect of the lens pulling far/closer.
The video came from the Twitter account of Italian media outlet Internese correspondent Annaliza Camilla, who also uploaded another video related to Aredondo's rescue on Internazionale's official website, clearly showing the background of the aforementioned online video being obscured by medical staff.
Although Ukrainian officials claimed that Renault's death was related to the Russian army, Camille learned from front-line reporters that Ilpin was full of gunfire, that the victory or defeat of Russia and Ukraine was undecided, and that the identity of the shooter was still a mystery.
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