Media Watchdog Calls on NBC to Correct Titanic Error

Mistake Bolsters False Russian Claim to North Pole, Says Kincaid

    WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Accuracy in Media editor
 Cliff Kincaid today called on NBC Nightly News to apologize for misleading
 viewers into believing that an image it presented on Monday night's
 newscast was of a Russian mini-sub under the North Pole. In fact, the image
 was of a submarine searching for wreckage of the Titanic. While not the
 first news organization to air the misleading image -- originally broadcast
 by Russian TV channel Rossiya -- NBC has refused to apologize for or even
 explain the mistake.
 
     "It is inexcusable that a reputable news organization like NBC would
 stonewall our request for a correction of the record," said Kincaid.
 "Reuters corrected its error in this case, and it is high time for NBC to
 do the same."
 
     In his column, "NBC Promotes Bogus Russian Claim to North Pole,"
 available on the AIM website at http://www.aim.org, Kincaid makes the case
 that NBC's failure to correct its error, in addition to its unjustified
 statement that the North Pole is governed by a U.N. treaty, are
 embarrassing errors that require immediate correction. Kincaid points to
 evidence that Americans were the first to set foot on the Pole and travel
 under it in a submarine, and that American claims to the region are legally
 valid.
 
     Accuracy in Media is a citizens' media watchdog organization whose
 mission is to promote fairness, balance, and accuracy in news reporting.
 Founded in 1969, AIM is the oldest non-profit press watchdog group in
 America. For more information, please visit http://www.aim.org.
 
       To arrange an interview with AIM editor Cliff Kincaid, contact Sarah
        Schaerr Norton at (202) 364-4401 ext. 107 or sarah.schaerr@aim.org.
 
 
 
 
 

SOURCE Accuracy in Media