Finnish teen sinks Russian TV's titanic polar ploy

[Sandman]

Russian minisubs are the biggest in the world!

[LordShiva]

I must have missed teh scene in Titanic where teh robotic arm planted a Russian flag on teh seabed

[Az]

Russian minisubs are the biggest in the world!

as to the story and it's embarassing ( for reuters ) ending - just goes to show you that you better check, re-check, and then triple-check such claims....

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Sandman
Russian minisubs are the biggest in the world!

ROFL

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Thue
Actually, this seems like a Reuters mess-up, and the Russian claim genuine.

It did seem rather unlikely that if you were going to fake images, you would use footage from the most viewed film in living memory...

http://www.hs.fi/english/article/iIl.../1135229390631

The link is dead.

[Asmodean]

Originally posted by The Vagabond


Now could those who laughed please apologize to Mother Russia? (just as a matter of gentlemanly behavior)

Not in a million years, I wont - in fact I think I'll laugh once or twice more, just for good measure.

Asmodean

[General Ludd]

Does it really matter? It's television. They need visual to go with the audio. It's not like it really makes a bit of difference if viewers are seeing a clip from the making of titanic or a real russian sub. It's just there to say "hey, there's this thing on the bottom of the ocean"

News stations do this all the time, showing a picture of an airplane, for instance, when talking about an airplane related story. or a stack of money when talking about the stock market. The picture isn't of the specific airplane or money in question, it's just there to make a visual connection.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by General Ludd
Does it really matter? It's television. They need visual to go with the audio. It's not like it really makes a bit of difference if viewers are seeing a clip from the making of titanic or a real russian sub. It's just there to say "hey, there's this thing on the bottom of the ocean"

News stations do this all the time, showing a picture of an airplane, for instance, when talking about an airplane related story. or a stack of money when talking about the stock market. The picture isn't of the specific airplane or money in question, it's just there to make a visual connection.

They used to have a caption underneath saying "Library pictures" or "Archive footage" or some such. It lead to the amusing jokes in comedy sketches of someone filming a library or archive and then adding the captions. They were so funny back in the Eighties.

Whatever happened to such captioning? Some new agencies have (re-)introduced the policy of saying "artist's impression" on science and technology stories with images that aren't direct images.

[Proteus_MST]

Of Bild-Zeitung (which is a tabloid in germany, just like the Sun in GB) we know that it doesn´t do so.
If it uses stock pictures to illustrate an event (for example burning wood or other things) it makes it appear as if these pictures were taken directly by Bild reporters on scene even if this picture doesn´t show this exact event but was gotten by Bild from some picture agency and just shows some other likewise event.

Well, this tabloid also likes to write "person xyz said in an interview with Bild" even if Bild just got the informations from an publis press release of this person and didn´t really hold an interview with this person (or the person outright refused to be interviewed by Bild [which is not uncommon]).

[alva]

Originally posted by Dauphin

They used to have a caption underneath saying "Library pictures" or "Archive footage" or some such. It lead to the amusing jokes in comedy sketches of someone filming a library or archive and then adding the captions. They were so funny back in the Eighties.

Hey, at least now they warn us about teh dangers of teh flash photography!!!