ITV use fake videogame footage, claim its authentic IRA video shooting down chopper

[Lassen2O]

Tiocfaidh ar la

[chrissomerry]

I can see how they could believe that if they didn't fact check, since it seems like a very stereotypical old-fashioned low-res terrorist footage with screwed up colours etc.

Now, what I DO want to know though is how someone managed to get that clip, make up a story about it, and somehow not draw any suspicion at all. Imagine if it wasn't a game and was stock war footage? Then it'd would be even harder to pick, but just as unfactual!

[alleygh0st]

ooops they did it again

[Hikarilover123]

I thought it was a mistake. What a bunch of dumbasses...

[MrBOSSMANPRODUCTIONS]

I R A IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY

[i7fan]

ARMA2 ARMA2 ARMA2 ARMA2

[ThebanPhalanx]

Texture popping, cool.

[comrade44]

especially the part where the helicopter crew jumps out and deploys para-shoots.

Totally what the military does, jump out of a helicoper and deploy their parashoot with no danger to getting caught by the propeller or having the shoot not deploy from down ward wind pressure!

[Sticker704]

Wow...really, no shit it's a video game. Any idiot could recognize it instantly

[PolyesterMoustache]

lol

[wackoblacko999]

I wonder if it was multiplayer or editior

[RazrXtreme00]

FAILED!

[win705]

"No one died in the attack"

NO SHIT!

[whitechristian1066]

JOHN CENA is an EVIL ZIONIST ANTI-Christ!

JOHN CENA loves watching EVIL ISRA-HELLI SOLDIERS SHOOT Arab Children in the head!

JOHN CENA enjoys reading the DISGUSTING ZIONIST TALMUD religious book INSULT Mary & Jesus!

JOHN CENA supports the RACIST APATHEID state of ISRA-HELL BOMB the U.S.S. Liberty!

JOHN CENA thinks WTC 7 was demolished like the other towers by magic when NOTHING hit it!

JOHN CENA thinks bin laden made a massive jet liner VANISH from an immaculate Pentagon lawn by magic!

[SammEater]

I wonder what's next show footage of Majora Mask and tell the people that the moon is falling? :P

[xcrazykiwi22x]

looks like Arma 2

[failtolawl]

@xcrazykiwi22x oh it is alright

[elvispco]

LOL PQPVCSHEIN

[renanobom2]

1988 games had perfect graphics...

[Lricardogame]

Well , thats so ... fake .

if they used BF3, people never suspected

[shitetron]

Literally crying with laughter, it's so obvious that it is footage from a video game

[fnogyrabyore]

lmfao

[plwfl]

q patético

[PrepaidKreditkarte81]

It´s the same like when 9/11 happened... The US TV showed some muslims who were celebrating 9/11... In reality the were celebrating something totaly different and the screens were long before 9/11...

Wake up people, the media is washing our brains and forcing more war, more hate, more racism!

[shoter251]

tv lol :D -.- is video game,gta put in a bit, talking about gangs kk

[maroonoasis]

did they even get in trouble for doing this?

[dominoc5]

what a sick shit

[MrPopular22]

Freedom of western press = they are free to lie and manipulate as much as they need.

If someone figures it out, they just say it was a mistake. Even my cockatiels know the difference between videogame and reality :-) But yeah, MISTAKE...

[nathj89uk]

"Nobody died in the attack, because it was a video game' - 59secs

[Kvokki]

Loooooooooll!!!

[Kvokki]

Loooooooooll!!!

[JEBOTEIME]

fcking Brittish propaganda! They are the one who are terrorists!

[MachOverspeedsPlace]

Shit like that don't get put into a documentary except on purpose.

[Alex64147]

ololo

[TheItchyFetus]

"ITV have since released a statement admitting that it had cocked up. "The events featured in Exposure: Gaddafi and the IRA were genuine but it would appear that during the editing process the correct clip of the 1988 incident was not selected and other footage was mistakenly included in the film by producers. This was an unfortunate case of human error for which we apologise." -some news place, i still think they make up most of the shit in the doco.

[NurrenNife]

I love the messed up physics at times and unnatural lighting. How anyone other than some crazy conservative 60 year old nutjob would fall for this is insane.

[SleepDirtyJazzySet]

these rascals are getting so nakedly corrupt lately, i can't decide whether it's more bizarre or frightening

[YGnoRMSter]

ha! i was that one d00d with the backpack right there. i remember that session on the public server back then!

lmao!

[PeyoteVisions]

that was so gay,... ITV ...

[john681611]

For any one wondering the game is ARMA2 using scripts, there are lots of far more convincing videos using the game but they don't claim to be real.

[smiffytf]

"Each side trying to out do the other, technically." What, GTX 580 vs GTX 460?

ITV failing hard yet again.  Another reaon why I don't watch their channels for anything other than Champions League football. And I hate their coverage of that aswell.

[WCNYBC]

Atleast use Call Of Duty!

[jthotshot]

@WCNYBC At least use battlefield 3

[MsThermite]

Just about sums up the TV media bullshit

[SteveOKenivO100]

brainwashing fail

[chubbylilloser]

LMFAO omg hahahaha thats so funny... how could they not tell that its a game? hahahaha

[DirtyDog3]

Typical spawn camping by the IRA noobs. Always about the k/d never going for the objective. They'd be auto-kicked on my server. :)

[lolololololololtoast]

wow just wow

[geater]

This is nothing new. A documentary in the 70s claimed to show IRA forces using Libyan arms, but it turned out to be footage from "Space Invaders".

[fringsrache]

@geater One of the funniest comments i have read for quite a while.

[violetbloodtimisoara]

worst propaganda show ever

[Blakeaphobia]

Lol stupid fuckin Brits

[legendofwayne]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! LULZ

[Mark42rus]

Lol:D

[Kia044]

F**king lying jackals. Seriously, how can you believe anything they say if they consider you dumb enough to buy stuff like this.

[543joe]

It clearly looks like a video game, a very good looking video game but a video game none the less

[lyte86]

Absolutely disgraceful. I don't accept for a minute that this was inserted 'in error'. A producer who was both lazy and stupid saw the video on YouTube and decided to use it without bothering either to contact the copyright owner or check its authenticity. The fact that the narrator says that nobody died in the 'attack' shows that facts had been knowingly invented to accompany the clip. Somebody needs to get fired, and ITV needs to be referred to Ofcom.

[CodeTwo2]

@lyte86 "A producer who was both lazy and stupid saw the video on YouTube and decided to use it without bothering either to contact the copyright owner or check its authenticity."

I have to disagree. I say no laziness, no stupidity, NO mistake. I say a deliberate attempt to imply the existence of a real video where non existed. These "human error" get-outs are bullshit, I simply don't believe such mistakes are routinely made. This was deliberate manipulation.

[Sood81]

@CodeTwo2 I agree with you.

[FieldMarshalRommel23]

@lyte86 Ofcom news reffered me to this!

[7Sn1per]

BUAHAHAHAA! Oh ITV, you so silly.

[honkdalonk]

How ITV employees work: Google, and take all the stuff. Real or not real. That is in germany the same shit.

[sixexex]

I raff'd, ITV ross'd.

[hippotoast]

hahaha that is hilarious. As if anyone involved in the production of this shite thought that "footage" was genuine. Can't believe they thought they would get away with it.

[aceshighapps]

I can never get my Arma2 troops to kill anything.

2: "3 o' clock enemy helicop"

3: "Oh no, 2 is down!"

[lejohnniemac]

McQuillan is so fat.love how at 0:44 the truck even clips up in the air.

[3Fux]

MSM lies.

They lie all the time, swine flu hoax, global warming hoax etc etc.

MSM is illuminatis brainwashing tool.

MSM = weapon of mass deception.

[zzz7628]

LOL

[ScottishAtheist]

"On a somewhat more positive note, we consider this as a bizarre appreciation of the level of realism incorporated into our games,"

-Marek Spanel

LOL embarrassing.

[mygaffer]

I am willing to guess that ITV didn't do this, someone else has edited it to look like they did.

[ScottishAtheist]

@mygaffer You'd be mistaken Sir. bbc(.)co(.)uk/news/uk-northern­-ireland-15082177

[lejohnniemac]

@mygaffer

this vid is linked here from the guardian and the BBC news website, ITV really DID do this.

[ismcb4sc]

why did itv do this it looks fake

[5british5]

looks like arma 

[shanem365]

@5british5 its arma 2

[5british5]

@shanem365 dont look like his computer is doing a good job running it