Russian Mir-image originate from Titanic movie!

[amadeus]

Now hear this!

A Finnish reader has spotted that the image released of the Russian polar expedition is actually from the movie Titanic. Compare images HERE (http://kuvat2.iltasanomat.fi/iltasanomat/iDoc/1418286-sisa2.jpg)
The picture on top is the news image by Reuters and the other is from the movie Titanic


Finnish paper claims Reuters used Titanic film shot

9.8.2007 at 13:00

News agency Reuters used an image originating from the Hollywood blockbuster film Titanic as a photo of the Russian polar dive last week, Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat reported Thursday

Hannu Vanhanen, a photograph specialist at the University of Tampere, was quoted as saying that there was no doubt the image sent to Reuters subscribers was from the film.

Reuters says the image was captured from a Russian television broadcast.

Russian polar explorers took Finnish-made Mir-1 and Mir-2 deep-sea submersibles to a depth of 4,261 below the North Pole Thursday last week.

Mirs were actually used to shoot footage of the RMS Titanic wreck at a depth of some 3.8km for the 1997 film of the 1912 sinking of the British oceanliner.

/STT/

© Copyright STT 2007


Some other links:

HERE (http://digg.com/world_news/Reuters_uses_imagery_from_Titanic_in_story_about_R ussian_expedition_to_NP)
and
HERE (http://www.hs.fi/english/article/iIlta-Sanomati+reveals+embarrassing+error+in+Reuters+fee d+on+Russian+North+Pole+sub+expedition/1135229390631)

[chattanova]

wtf :confused:
Thats not the smartest thing to do, someone would for sure see this!
Great to see them screw up like this:D

[amadeus]

I found this hilarious:


Things are probably not that dramatic: it merely seems that someone at the normally meticulous news agency arrived at a wrong conclusion of their own about the images and they were mislabelled or left without any captions at all.
The incident is doubly embarrassing for Reuters since it follows on from a case last August in which the news agency published an image by a freelancer of Israeli bombings in Lebanon that had been dramatised using photo manipulation, with the addition of smoke rising from allegedly burning buildings. After that gaffe, Reuters promised to tighten up its controls on material being put out in its name.

How stupid do they think we are...?

[hagbard_celine]

:D:D:eek:

And they call us nuts when we question the pictures of men on the moon!:rolleyes:

There's no limit to how deeply they'll try to con us! They do think we're stupid and that's their greatest weakness.