Reuters Gets It Wrong Again
It seems a 13 year old Finnish boy has proven himself better at editing photos than Reuters. With Reuters record of late, it would seem Reuters would be better off submitting their stories to the blogoshpere before actually submitting them for general consumption. We could call it the Blogosphere Editors for Better Journalism.
Guardian: Reuters gets that sinking feeling
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.
h/t: Little Green Footballs with all of the pithy comments.