ITV fakes terrorist footage using ARMA II

[ProfTournesol]

Yeah, still up via UK based proxy.

PS: Happy Birthday placebo you old fart. have a good one

Pfff, less than fourty and called old fart

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Happy birthday anyway

[Daniel]

Faking, or using fake footage is not only dumb but it seriously impacts on the entire reliability of the documentary. How can we take in and process any bit of information knowing that any of it can be faked, made up, inserted without care or attention? It's a dullwitted affair when videogame footage is being supplied to us as proof of wrongdoing by a dictator. How, and why should we believe anything?

After a small amount of googling, there are claims that other footage in the doc are false too, such as a clip supposedly from the troubles during the 80s showing 90s era Snatch Landies.

[PELHAM]

There is actual footage of the incident on youtube:

IRA Shootdown UK Army Lynx, Silverbridge, South Armagh.
They used a battery of DSHKs and other MG's in an agricultural trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIgNj43S9sE

I wonder if some researcher was told to get the video and edit it and picked the wrong one?

[Nouty]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, ITV? I hope BIS will sue them for millions of billions :P. Lazy-ass mother****ers. This is unbelievably funny and troubling at the same time.

Here's some news coverage, I hope other medias will pick it up too and not just the gaming media. http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/09/27/it...cret-ira-film/

It's hard to imagine them not being able to tell the difference between a game and reality, man that reporter must be blind.

[[KH]Jman]

I wonder if some researcher was told to get the video and edit it and picked the wrong one?

That would seem a plausible explanation. Still very embarrassing for ITV.

[Daniel]

I wonder if some researcher was told to get the video and edit it and picked the wrong one?

Yeah, it's starting to look like they just picked the wrong one, probably not imagining that someone would recreate it in a video game. Still sloppy though.

[Janxy]

Wow that's quite low of ITV to use Arma2 like that.

I've posted the links from the OP on my FB account, there's a few media types on my friends list so hopefully it'll make it's way onto some mainstream uk news.

It could turn out to be a nice bit of advertising for BIS.

[Zoz]

They might as well use this real life footage to make a documentary about battle-bus in Afghanistan.
People must know!

[ukjourno]

Hello. Where in the game is this footage based?

Kind regards,

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[blardyblah]

Its not necessarily ITV's fault...it's the archivers, or even Associated Press thank you very much