Gaza video genuine, journalists say

“He’s a man of enormous integrity and would never get involved with any sort of manipulation of images, let alone when the person dying is his own brother,” Martin said. “I know the whole family. I know them very well. … [Mashharawi] is upset and angry that anyone would think of him having done anything like this. … This is ridiculous. He’s independent.”

BUT

The tape was fed to London and used by several outlets, without WNF itself actually having the facility to watch it beforehand.

So cnn stood by the tape on Martin’s word alone. cnn must have a lot of trust in raw, unviewed video.