Remember Last Week When The Russians Planted A Flag On The Arctic Floor?
It was a fake, at least in part
"UNEARTHLY blue lights played across the ocean floor four kilometres below the North Pole as the heroic Russian explorers descended in mini-submarines to plant a metre-high flag.That's what the Russian state television company, Rossiya, wanted us to believe. The truth was rather different.
In an apparent attempt to "sex up" a news program, the TV station has been caught passing off footage from the 1997 Hollywood blockbuster Titanic as a real-life report on the Kremlin's recent attempt to stake its claim to the riches of the Arctic Ocean.Rossiya's images were distributed around the world, appearing on television news, websites and as "screen grabs" in newspapers.
It took an alert teenager in Finland with a Titanic DVD to spot the sham. Waltteri Seretin, 13, recognised the images in the national daily, Ilta-Sanomat."I was looking at the photo of the Russian sub expedition and I noticed immediately that there was something familiar about the picture," he told the paper.
"I checked it with my DVD and there it was, right there in the beginning of the movie; exactly the same image of the submersibles approaching the ship."
Jack Dawson: "I'm the King of the World!"
"UNEARTHLY blue lights played across the ocean floor four kilometres below the North Pole as the heroic Russian explorers descended in mini-submarines to plant a metre-high flag.That's what the Russian state television company, Rossiya, wanted us to believe. The truth was rather different.
In an apparent attempt to "sex up" a news program, the TV station has been caught passing off footage from the 1997 Hollywood blockbuster Titanic as a real-life report on the Kremlin's recent attempt to stake its claim to the riches of the Arctic Ocean.Rossiya's images were distributed around the world, appearing on television news, websites and as "screen grabs" in newspapers.
It took an alert teenager in Finland with a Titanic DVD to spot the sham. Waltteri Seretin, 13, recognised the images in the national daily, Ilta-Sanomat."I was looking at the photo of the Russian sub expedition and I noticed immediately that there was something familiar about the picture," he told the paper.
"I checked it with my DVD and there it was, right there in the beginning of the movie; exactly the same image of the submersibles approaching the ship."
Jack Dawson: "I'm the King of the World!"
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