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Reuters gets that sinking feeling
The Guardian (UK) ^
| Friday August 10, 2007
| Leigh Holmwood
Posted on 08/10/2007 9:29:05 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne
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.
Titanic error: Reuters issued this film still with a story about the Russian flag being planted beneath the North Pole. Photograph: Reuters
(Excerpt) Read more at media.guardian.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: fakebutaccurate; lyingmedia; medialies; msm; msmdeathwatch; northpole; reuters; reutersfauxtography; russia; submersible; titanic
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To: Grampa Dave
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posted on
08/10/2007 11:05:23 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Orange1998
To: rlmorel
That is an amazing group of pictures. It changes for the better every once in awhile.
63
posted on
08/10/2007 12:03:15 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Donate to Vets For Freedom: http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/)
To: monkapotamus; pookie18; george76; abb; Milhous; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ASA Vet; BIGLOOK
Bush's fault that the Russians seized the North Pole and ate Santa Claus.
64
posted on
08/10/2007 12:12:37 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
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To: Grampa Dave
BWAAAAHAAAHAAA!
GREAT PICS!
65
posted on
08/10/2007 12:24:47 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: Sloth
This female soldier whose face was "melted" by an IED endured mocking by U.S. military
personnel, as documented by heroic whistleblower Scott Beauchamp. [ REUTERS ]
66
posted on
08/10/2007 1:02:57 PM PDT
by
Sloth
(You being wrong & me being closed-minded are not the same thing, nor are they mutually exclusive.)
To: Lancey Howard
That one is the best ever... even better than the idiot reporter standing out in the wind and rain of the huricane, only to move 10 feet to his left where the wind was not lashing much at all the minute he thinks the scene is over.
To: Izzy Dunne
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.
Ouch! LOL.
You can't make this stuff up folks.
68
posted on
08/10/2007 1:05:58 PM PDT
by
Vision
("Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 17:7)
To: Sloth
Potential targets of litigation discuss the ramifications of the RIAA's recent crackdown on piracy. [ REUTERS ]
69
posted on
08/10/2007 1:25:11 PM PDT
by
Sloth
(You being wrong & me being closed-minded are not the same thing, nor are they mutually exclusive.)
To: onedoug
To: Lancey Howard
Thanks for the the BM. I came across another media spoof, did you happen to see the horns. http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/magazines/time_gives_billy_graham_devils_horns_64792.asp?c=rss
To: windcliff
Had I seen the picture I think I would have sensed that.
Whoa, I think I know that guy at #45.
72
posted on
08/10/2007 1:58:24 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Lancey Howard
Zombie is sooo good with those. I remember the one with the black-hooded guy on the box.
So powerful.
And Cindy Sheehan with Jesse Jackson. They were very eye-opening.
I love how Zombie does that.
73
posted on
08/10/2007 3:40:55 PM PDT
by
Shelayne
(I will continue to pray for President Bush and my country, as I am commanded to do by my Lord.)
To: Liberty Valance
74
posted on
08/10/2007 3:47:24 PM PDT
by
mware
(By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
To: monkapotamus
LOL!! Too funny.
They kept giving us the Lebanese widow too, right? Which is why I call them Roto-Reuters... good just for flushing.
75
posted on
08/11/2007 6:15:36 AM PDT
by
AnnaZ
(I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
To: Izzy Dunne
It was a 13 year old Finnish schoolboy that sank Reuter's deceptive use of video.
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.
To: Lancey Howard
I want to think those guys knew there was some deceit going on in that live broadcast and they decided to take matters into their own hands. LOL!!
77
posted on
08/12/2007 2:51:20 PM PDT
by
maxter
To: Izzy Dunne
Yup Iz, after Adnan Hajj's fiasco, I concluded that AP, Reuters and UPI were simply news services whose articles and reporting I would ignore.
These guys have no idea the kind of trouble they are in.
Like the NYT, when they get it, it will be too late, and I will personally laugh as I watch them TANK!
78
posted on
08/12/2007 5:18:32 PM PDT
by
Candor7
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(1258))
To: dead
You can tell that the destruction of Reuters is sad, because there's a stuffed toy nearby.Very, very funny.
To: dead
You can tell that the destruction of Reuters is sad, because there's a stuffed toy nearby.Hilarious!
80
posted on
08/12/2007 7:55:29 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
( America: “...the most benign hegemon in history.” —Mark Steyn)
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