Remote Observer
10-08-2007, 18:33
*cue Celine Dion*
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,2146373,00.html
I find it funny that not only did Reuters mess up, but that other news agencies, counting on Reuters to get it right, were also fooled.
It's even more funny that they were found out by a 13 year old kid.
Maybe Reuters needs to hire him to screen their photos before publication.
"Hey! This one looks familiar!"
News agency Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic.
The images were reproduced around the world - including by the Guardian and Guardian Unlimited - alongside the story of Russia planting its flag below the North Pole on Thursday last week.
But it has now emerged that the footage actually showed two Finnish-made Mir submersibles that were employed on location filming at the scene of the wreck of the RMS Titanic ship in the north Atlantic some 10 years ago.
This footage was used in sequences in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster about the 1912 disaster.
The mistake was only revealed after a 13-year-old Finnish schoolboy contacted a local newspaper to tell them the images looked identical to those used in the movie.
Reuters has admitted that it took the images from Russian state television channel RTR and wrongly captioned them as file footage originating from the Arctic.
This concludes today's attempt at a humorous post by RO.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled flaming.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,2146373,00.html
I find it funny that not only did Reuters mess up, but that other news agencies, counting on Reuters to get it right, were also fooled.
It's even more funny that they were found out by a 13 year old kid.
Maybe Reuters needs to hire him to screen their photos before publication.
"Hey! This one looks familiar!"
News agency Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic.
The images were reproduced around the world - including by the Guardian and Guardian Unlimited - alongside the story of Russia planting its flag below the North Pole on Thursday last week.
But it has now emerged that the footage actually showed two Finnish-made Mir submersibles that were employed on location filming at the scene of the wreck of the RMS Titanic ship in the north Atlantic some 10 years ago.
This footage was used in sequences in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster about the 1912 disaster.
The mistake was only revealed after a 13-year-old Finnish schoolboy contacted a local newspaper to tell them the images looked identical to those used in the movie.
Reuters has admitted that it took the images from Russian state television channel RTR and wrongly captioned them as file footage originating from the Arctic.
This concludes today's attempt at a humorous post by RO.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled flaming.