Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/31/top_gun_repurposed/
Chinese 'repurpose' Top Gun footage
Explosive fake news report raises eyebrows
Posted in Bootnotes, 31st January 2011 13:13 GMT
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China's state broadcaster CCTV has been left looking a bit daft after local netizens spotted [1] it had swiped a choice snippet of footage from Top Gun.
The outrage featured in a 23 November broadcast about an air force training exercise, in which "a target was hit by the air-to-air missile fired by a J-10 fighter aircraft".
In fact, the victim of this piece of airborne unfriendliness is the US F-5 seen being blasted from the skies at the end of Hollywood's 1986 testoterone-fuelled homage to navy fliers.
According [2] to the Wall Street Journal, CCTV has removed the clip featuring this shameless piece of "repurposing" from its website, but it's too late to hide from the interwebs' all-seeing eye:
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