Sunday, January 30, 2011

Scenes from "Top Gun": Internet users expose cheating Chinese TV

In China, TV journalists are obviously big Hollywood Fans: A report on an air force maneuvers intended images from the movie "Top Gun" refers to Tom Cruise. Internet users recognize the misconduct of public TV station - and criticize them fiercely. Beijing - The Chinese state television has appeared in an article on Chinese air force maneuvers showed scenes from the Hollywood movie "Top Gun".

On 23 January broadcast of the CCTV report shows how a fighter jet fires a missile at another jet, which explodes. Internet users identified in the images, which were interrupted by interviews with air force officers, the dramatic final scene of the movie "Top Gun" with Tom Cruise from the year 1986.

The Wall Street Journal on its website the relevant excerpt from "Top Gun" and the section in the TV report with respect to - the images are apparently identical. According to the Wall Street Journal, a CCTV spokesman initially wanted nothing to say about the incident. The station, however, took the report from its website, as the news of the apparently stolen pictures made the rounds.

In Chinese online forums of the breach has been heavily criticized. The government in Beijing had announced only a week ago to strengthen the fight against intellectual property theft.

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