Saturday, August 11, 2007

lgf: Reuters Busted by a 13-Year Old

lgf: Reuters Busted by a 13-Year Old:

"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 deception 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."


Give that kid a job in the editing department. This is really too funny for words.

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