ITV confuses games with real life!

"ITV has admitted footage in a recent documentary was actually taken from the Arma 2 video game. The channel blamed human error for the mix-up, insisting that it did have the necessary footage but that someone somehow put a scene from the video game into the final edit instead.

The mistake came in the opening episode of ITV1′s new documentary series Exposure, which looked at supposed links between the IRA and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. ITV has insisted that despite the mistake, all the claims made by the documentary are correct and the events described did happen.

The episode has been removed from the ITV Player online service and will be put back online once the offending clip has been taken out and the real clip has been put back in. Around 1.3m people watched the episode when it was first broadcast, and ITV will be hoping that not too many of them are dissuaded from sticking with the show after this embarrassing mistake."

:D :p

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The good thing about this is not that they "look silly" for using video game footage and trying to pass it off as real footage, it's that their propaganda was exposed.

Please, British media, keep telling me that attacking Libya was for the good of humanity, I love a good yarn.
 
Pixel said:
The good thing about this is not that they "look silly" for using video game footage and trying to pass it off as real footage, it's that their propaganda was exposed.

Please, British media, keep telling me that attacking Libya was for the good of humanity, I love a good yarn.
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It was. but.... not Syria. They have bigger guns.
 
ITV breached audience trust over 'IRA' video game footage, says Ofcom

ITV breached audience trust over 'IRA' video game footage, says Ofcom

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/23/itv-ira-ofcom-video-game

Guardian said:
ITV said the mistake was down to 'human error'
Ofcom has censured ITV for misleading viewers and breaking the broadcasting code after video game footage was mistakenly used in a documentary sequence purporting to show the IRA shooting down a helicopter with weapons supplied by Muammar Gaddafi.

The regulator said the mistake, in the first episode of ITV1's new current affairs show Exposure broadcast in September, was a "significant breach of audience trust", particularly given ITV's role as a public service broadcaster.

Ofcom also criticised ITV for accidentally running the wrong footage in a second archive clip in the documentary, Gaddafi and the IRA.

The footage in question purported to show police clashing with rioters in Northern Ireland in July 2011, but was in fact of riots "several years" earlier.

Ofcom said the production team and ITV's compliance officers had shown "clear deficiencies" in checking the provenance of the helicopter clip, which was a sequence from a computer game called Arma 2, and was "very surprised" the programme makers thought the footage was authentic film of the 1988 attack.

ITV said the mistake was down to "human error" caused by the "pressure [staff] were under in meeting the deadline for the programme's completion, delivery and broadcast".

The producers of the programme failed to check that the internet footage was a real clip of the incident filmed by the IRA and aired in 1989 on The Cook Report, which they wanted to re-broadcast.

ITV said a compliance officer had raised doubts about the footage but programme-makers dismissed the concerns.

Ofcom said there were "significant and easily identifiable differences" between the two pieces of footage.

"We considered that there were clear deficiencies in the steps taken by both production and compliance staff for sourcing and verifying the archival content of the helicopter attack in this programme," added Ofcom.

"As such this represented a significant breach of audience trust, particularly in the context of a public service broadcaster. Ofcom considered the programme to be materially misleading."

ITV had sourced the video footage of the riot, which occurred in the Ardoyne area of Belfast, from a "local historian", who it said "has supplied footage to various broadcasters in the past".

The show's producers considered him to be a "trustworthy source", however due to a "miscommunication", footage of an earlier riot in the same area several years before was supplied to ITV.

Viewers complained to Ofcom after noticing the type of police riot vehicles in the footage did not match those used in 2011.

"The footage used was of an earlier riot, not the riot in 2011," said ITV. "This mistake was the result of human error and not a deliberate attempt to mislead viewers."

ITV said it had apologised to viewers who directly contacted it over the footage, and removed the programme from the ITV Player.

The broadcaster told Ofcom it had introduced improvements to its compliance procedures to ensure "similar errors do not occur in future".
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