ITV claims game footage as 'real life recording' (IRA program from the other night)

Edrof · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:04

What game is it from?

Edit: Ahh, nevermind.

qqg3 · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:07

ARMA II is an advanced military simulator. Graphics are dodgy in places because it's made by an independent developer.

But people like me, who have followed the franchise from the original Operation Flashpoint, know its awesome.

ITV are laughable.

garyfl · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:10

Obviously this shows just how dangerous violent video games can be in the hands of simple, uneducated children...in the media. We need strong legislation to ensure these games are only handled by well-trained, qualified gamers because who know what kind of catastrophe awaits the next time some sensationalist media-ling gets their hands on some game footage. Oh the virtual non-humanity!
arklop5 1 hour ago 35 likes

arrrghhh shaddap|!

[TW]Fox · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:13

Dj_Jestar said:
I did! It's from Arma2 which is a 2010 game

It was released in June 2009.

Brian8bit · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:20

LOL. That is all.

RomanNose · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:21

How can anyone be as far as decided to use a clip from a video game in a documentary on a national TV station?

Dj_Jestar · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:22

[TW]Fox;20166550 said:
It was released in June 2009.

So it was, I was thinking of A2:OA.

KatanaDV20 · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:29

I still cant believe this was aired and labeled as "real footage"...it cant be possible???

No words....!!!!

Castiel · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:30

Has anyone considered that the ARMA cutscene was taken from stock footage of an IRA video?

Edrof · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:31

I got news for all you dudes in this here thread: journalists make stuff up!

Morgoth · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:34

Ahaha, this is brilliant.

cheets64 · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:35

Alpherah said:
Did anyone see this program from the other night about the IRA?
Theres a scene where a helicopter gets taken down that they claimed to be IRA amateur footage but its in fact footage from ARMA II.

The other half thought i was mad when i started laughing like mad during an IRA documentary lol

Reddit user?

Just shows you how scummy the media is, its can do brilliant things but then it cant just be lazy and down right dangerous.

pingwing · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:37

Good old ITV firmly bringing down the standards of broadcasting one day at a time

Al Vallario · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:39

MookJong · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:43

How on earth could you possibly think that footage was real, ITV are a mockery.

teaboy5 · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:48

There is real footage of the IRA taking down a chopper in south armagh. It can be found easily online and they were using an AA gun out the back of a pickup.

Why ITV didn't use that I will never know.

Brian8bit · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:52

Al Vallario said:
To be clear, it seems the source of ITV's confusion is this YouTube video uploaded in March this year:

For some inexplicable reason, the YouTube uploader is the one who presented the video as a real-life video recording of a PIRA attack, giving it the title "PIRA Shoot Down British Helicopter 1988" and the following description:

It seems a researcher working on the documentary bashed "IRA helicopter attack" into YouTube looking for footage of such attacks, found this video, assumed it was some candid IRA footage unavailable elsewhere, so took it and put it in the documentary.

What's even more ridiculous is the youtubers claim about the incident in the 70s. It wasn't IRA gunfire that brought the helicopter down. It wasn't hit. The pilot that crashed the helicopter survived during the crash (he apparently stalled it performing an evasive manoeuvre) in the 70s but was later killed when he crashed a second helicopter.

Nothing gets in the way of youtube IRA propaganda films though.

Robbo · 27 Sep 2011 at 19:01

That is rather hilarious.

Fuzz · 27 Sep 2011 at 19:11

Why I stopped watching TV, cannot trust anyone to tell the truth any more

cheets64 · 27 Sep 2011 at 19:27

Dont know what is more funnier, someone pretending it was actual IRA footage and putting it on youtube or someone being paid to research and thinking it was actual footage and used it in a national tv programme.