13-Year-Old Finn Spots Footage From "Titanic" In Russian Flag-Planting Video

[hatrack]

Russia faces embarrassment over its flag planting expedition to the North Pole after claims that state broadcasters borrowed scenes from the movie Titanic to "beef-up" footage. Television company Rossiya sent images of mini submarines descending to the ocean floor around the world in its report about the mission.

But a 13-year-old boy from Finland spotted the scenes in the national daily newspaper Ilta-Sanomat, and realised that they resembled images on his Titanic DVD. He told the newspaper: "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." Titanic, made by James Cameron and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, opens with pictures of divers inspecting the 1912 shipwreck.

The news programme is accused of merging real footage with the movie shots under the caption "northern Arctic Ocean", according to the Guardian. It reported that Rossiya had refused to comment on the footage but said its Vesti news programme had originally been filmed using scale models in a studio. The company is one of two state-controlled channels that have been turned into propaganda tools under President Vladimir Putin.

The Kremlin has used Artur Chilingarov's controversial expedition, after which he declared the Arctic "forever Russian", to stir up national sentiment in support of Russia's claim to the land.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/11/wrussia111.xml

I wonder how "Fox" looks in Cyrillic . . .

[meegbear]

1. Holy Celine Dion Batman!

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Pravda and Izvestia are alive and well

And not just in the United States.

[havocmom]

3. Putin must be picking up pointers from Rove's propaganda ministry

Hey, ya don't think Rove quit cuz the buff bear made him an offer...

:shrug: Does Russia and the US have an extradition treaty?

[Bread and Circus]

4. Russia is filled with such a bunch of schlocky incompetence...

it's pretty fun actually.

[peacetalksforall]

5. "... is one of two state-controlled channels that have been turned into...

propaganda tools under President Vladimir Putin"


We have seven. They are STATE-CORPORATE controlled:

FOX-Murdoch.
CNN-Time Warner
ABC-Viacom-Disney
CBS-many?
NBC-GE
MSNBC-GE Microsoft
CNBC-GE

They are really one, but for now according to their schedule, they are keeping up the pretense of separateness and competition.