NBC Promotes Bogus Russian Claim to North Pole

A scandal that won't get much media attention. The media doesn't investigate the media:

On the NBC Nightly News on Monday night, Brian Williams introduced a story about Russian claims to the North Pole that featured an image of what viewers were led to believe was a small Russian submarine under the polar ice. The image originally appeared on the Russian television channel Rossiya. But the image was not of a Russian sub under the Pole. It shows a min-sub at the scene of the wreckage of the Titanic. Similar images appeared in James Cameron’s 1997 movie Titanic.

By the time the report by correspondent Kerry Sanders was put up on the NBC News website, this controversial image and others had been taken off, leaving only a photo of a Russian flag allegedly having been planted on the ocean floor. Between the time of the broadcast and the posting of the Sanders piece on the website, it is apparent that somebody at NBC News became aware of the fact that the image had nothing to do with the Russian visit to the North Pole and was deceptive.

Where is our worthless government in all this. Will this aggression go unchallenged? Or are we too weak to respond?:

The mix-up with the images may not have been the most serious problem with the NBC News report. Sanders made the extraordinary claim that “Right now a United Nations treaty has the final word on who owns the Arctic Sea’s riches.” He cited no evidence for that statement. History shows―and the Russians have acknowledged―that American explorers actually set foot first on the North Pole. One of them, U.S. Navy Commander Robert E. Peary, did so in 1909 and claimed it for the U.S. “I have nailed the stars and stripes to the North Pole,” Peary himself was quoted as saying. His colleague, black explorer Matthew Henson, actually planted the American flag there. The USS Nautilus traveled under the Pole in 1958 and restated America’s claim to the region “for the United States and the United States Navy,” as recounted by Nautilus commander William R. Anderson in his book, First Under the North Pole. Under the “Doctrine of Discovery,” a well established legal principle, the Pole belongs to the U.S.