By Jim Rossignol on September 27th, 2011 at 3:24 pm.
Hey, everyone, please join in with the rest of the internet and laugh at ITV. They’ve only gone and made a documentary about Gadaffi’s links with the IRA, and then used footage from Arma II to illustrate it. “IRA Film 1988″ it says over a dodgy Frapsing of Arma II. No, they actually did that. Presumably, as PCG points out, because of this dodgy YouTube video. You can watch the clip in question below. (This spectacular stupidity was originally discovered by the BI Forums.)
The timing of this event, given recent trends, is impeccable. Good times.
27/09/2011 at 15:28 ShineDog says:
This really is amazing.
27/09/2011 at 19:25 Nemon says:
AMAZING. STUFF. ON. ITV.
27/09/2011 at 15:30 KikiJiki says:
Good grief
Edit: I wonder if they can be referred to Ofcom for this.
27/09/2011 at 15:30 CMaster says:
I like how you can see all the jaggies.
Real life is anti aliased, ITV!
28/09/2011 at 09:36 mejoff says:
But, is IRA footage from the eighties anti-aliased? Answer me that!
27/09/2011 at 15:31 Santiaguito says:
at first i was like wut??
but then i remembered stupids are everywhere
27/09/2011 at 15:31 terry says:
Terrorists play ARMA2!
27/09/2011 at 15:39 Mehbah says:
This is exactly how they will spin it. No one will admit that the people who produced this were incompetent. Instead, you can expect various media to report that OH MY GOD MURDER SIMULATOR ARMA 2 IS TEACHING PEOPLE HOW TO JOIN GADAFFI’S TERRORISTS.
27/09/2011 at 15:45 Raiyan 1.0 says:
Or how ArmA is putting Greece’s national security at risk.!
27/09/2011 at 17:22 Gap Gen says:
Ah, since when has media commentary been impartial and level-headed?
27/09/2011 at 18:11 figvam says:
It’s a good indication of the validity of the whole “Gaddafi & IRA” story If they had to use *this* as a factual evidence. One has to wonder about the substantiality of other hot “facts” about the Libyan regime the media is spinning endlessly in the recent months.
27/09/2011 at 15:33 Teddy Leach says:
I told you the graphics were realistic.
27/09/2011 at 16:23 mjig says:
I can’t think of a better advertisement for Arma.
27/09/2011 at 18:21 DevilSShadoW says:
well played indeed
27/09/2011 at 15:33 Jimbo says:
LOL, seriously? Did the person who included this not have eyes?
28/09/2011 at 09:58 johann tor says:
Or they are internet illiterate enough not to realize that something being posted on youtube doesn’t necessarily make it authentic.
27/09/2011 at 15:34 Joseph-Sulphur says:
I bet Egg was flying that chopper.
27/09/2011 at 15:52 kataras says:
I m sure Liquorish was in charge as well… Maybe he was even the co-pilot,
27/09/2011 at 19:05 Stranglove says:
And I bet that it was joe wot shot them down.
27/09/2011 at 15:34 Will Tomas says:
Good god… Wow, just wow. That’s surpremely lazy, incompetent, and utterly idiotic. And hilarious. But, still…
27/09/2011 at 15:34 chris says:
Is this the real life?
27/09/2011 at 15:36 EOT says:
Is this just fantasy?
27/09/2011 at 15:41 Teddy Leach says:
Caught in a landslide…
27/09/2011 at 15:43 michal.lewtak says:
No escape from reality.
27/09/2011 at 15:45 Bull0 says:
open your eyes, itv
27/09/2011 at 15:47 strangeed says:
look up to the sky and seeeee….
27/09/2011 at 15:53 Inglourious Badger says:
Not this again! At least get another tune!
Oh hell,:
I’m just a poor boy….
27/09/2011 at 15:55 neolith says:
I need no sympathy
27/09/2011 at 16:27 fallingmagpie says:
Under pressure.
Dun-dun-dun-diddle-un-dun.
Under pressure.
27/09/2011 at 16:40 Mr Bismarck says:
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it.
27/09/2011 at 17:07 Bodminzer says:
TRAPPED IN PURGATORY, A MEANINGLESS OBJECT ALIVE.
27/09/2011 at 17:12 Tuor says:
Fat-bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go ’round!
27/09/2011 at 17:15 CMaster says:
She’s a killer Quu-eeeennnn
27/09/2011 at 17:15 Kaira- says:
This brutal machinery is bound to take some lives.
It’s running on human fuel!
27/09/2011 at 18:37 Donjo says:
Nasum or Queen Nasum or Queen..QUASUM
UUNDER SUBMISSION FOR A LONG TIME
AN OLD MAN TOLD ME A FABLE
MY SOUL IS STARTING TO ROT
THAT IS THE SIGGGGNNNNNN
27/09/2011 at 18:50 westyfield says:
I want to BREAK FREE!
27/09/2011 at 19:23 Tankerwade says:
This is even funnier knowing that Arma is developed by Bohemia Interactive
27/09/2011 at 19:30 Lambchops says:
What do you mean “Flash Gordon approaching?”
27/09/2011 at 19:47 Zogtee says:
Feel it, if you know what I mean. Give it up for those heroes in green.
28/09/2011 at 09:48 mejoff says:
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat
(dakkadakkadakka)
Another one bites the dust
27/09/2011 at 15:35 Unaco says:
It’s not even FRAPS’d. It looks like someone’s recorded it with a camera off the screen.
27/09/2011 at 15:43 EOT says:
Dunno, looks like they’ve deliberately edited it to make it look like ‘real’ footage. Interesting. Perhaps we should have a camera man on Tactical Tuesdays.
27/09/2011 at 15:47 royaltyinexile says:
No, I think the original was actually filmed on a potato :p
Now, this is edited to make it look ‘real.’ :)
27/09/2011 at 16:16 EOT says:
Well…I am watching it on a phone in the middle of a fairly boring maths lecture so my appreciation of it may be somewhat skewed.
27/09/2011 at 20:18 El_MUERkO says:
I’m pretty sure what they’re saying is the original edit is not the original edit, I saw a similar if not identical video a while ago, it had the shaky-cam stuff but also pretend news stuff like how BIS do in their cut scenes.
27/09/2011 at 15:36 Bull0 says:
Fucking hell. Idiots.
I now feel really bad for regularly criticising more competent people.
This may genuinely have opened my eyes. I do need to revise my standards. I’m too cynical of good, basically hardworking and intelligent people. Clearly there are some real morons in work. I’m sorry.
27/09/2011 at 15:37 Jorum says:
British journalism shines again.
Our press quite a while ago eroded to the point where most journalists just trawl and regurgitate internet, twitter, and PR feeds (apparently a large number now aren’t expected or allowed to leave the office).
TV is looking to follow that example it seems.
27/09/2011 at 20:12 Dances to Podcasts says:
It just looks that way because tv spends half their time discussing newspapers.
/tv at work is set to Sky…
27/09/2011 at 15:38 Nim says:
Someone send this revelation to competing media… please.
27/09/2011 at 15:49 Will Tomas says:
I think Rory Cellan-Jones at the BBC, Benjamin Cohen at Channel 4 News, or The Guardian’s TV/technology sections might be a good bet if anyone does fancy e-mailing this to competitors.
27/09/2011 at 17:25 Tams80 says:
Rory Cellan-Jones is hardly any better.
27/09/2011 at 15:38 Xercies says:
And it looks like there computer can’t even run it, looks like a bad machima or Full Life consequences lol
27/09/2011 at 15:40 Srethron says:
Life is just a dream, you know
that’s never ending
27/09/2011 at 15:44 michal.lewtak says:
I’m ascending…
27/09/2011 at 16:03 zergrush says:
And now I’ll have to spend the rest of the day listening to the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack.
Thank you.
27/09/2011 at 20:46 Firkragg says:
Time well spent, good sir:
See you space samurai.
27/09/2011 at 15:40 weego says:
What are the chances that they use this mistake to pivot into a “well if we were fooled by the footage just IMAGINE WHAT ACTUALLY PLAYING THE GAME IS DOING TO OUR CHILDREN”
27/09/2011 at 15:42 Bull0 says:
The old “we’re going to dig ourselves out of this hole chaps, and we’re going to start by digging a much deeper one” tack. Yep, wouldn’t be the first time traditional media tried that
27/09/2011 at 15:41 aircool says:
Footage shown is representative of actual gameplay.
27/09/2011 at 15:41 CharlO says:
That’s because they use Playstation, they just don’t see the lack of AntiAliasing, and believe that if the camera is not steady, is just like real life.
27/09/2011 at 15:42 DeanLearner says:
I bet this was Adrian Chiles’ doing.
27/09/2011 at 15:42 Raiyan 1.0 says:
Never mind.
27/09/2011 at 15:43 Zarunil says:
Oh dear. How embarrassing.
27/09/2011 at 15:44 Drake Sigar says:
And after all that hogwash about gamers not being able to tell the difference between reality and fiction…
27/09/2011 at 15:51 Oozo says:
Did you hear that? That was the sound of Jean Baudrillard screaming “Told you so!” from beyond his grave, calling to arms and pens an armada of yellow press journalists, whose feriocious scribbling disturbs the afternoon sleep of twelve dozen beardy students of media philosophy, who just woke up to the strange and sudden feeling that there is a game-changing thesis waiting to be written somewhere out there, if only, if only one could remember the proper spelling of the word “simulacrum”.
28/09/2011 at 00:48 gamma says:
The chart has replaced territory many decades ago. Much more deeply than one can understand… and not only by simple visual interpretations, myth has reached its operative enablers in the realm of tought/language as well. This is the single most consequencial problem humanity faces, superficially designated as lack of critical thinking…
28/09/2011 at 04:41 MrEvilGuy says:
The equivalent of the conveyor belt here, is the Japanese vaginal cyclorama – it outdoes any strip-tease. Prostitutes, their thighs open, sitting on the edge of a platform, Japanese workers in their shirt-sleeves (it is a popular spectacle), permitted to shove their noses up to their eyeballs within the woman’s vagina in order to see, to see better – but what?
28/09/2011 at 05:43 gamma says:
Definitely trying the game-changing thesis here by mispelling “simulation” with an extragenous “t” somewhere…
27/09/2011 at 15:51 tungstenHead says:
I like how the back end of the truck leaps into the air about a foot at 0:43 as the guy standing behind it goes prone.
27/09/2011 at 15:53 Gundrea says:
THIS VIDEO IS REAL I KNOW BECAUSE I WAS THERE. AFTER WE SHOT DOWN THE HELICOPTER WE spawncamped for like an hour lol
27/09/2011 at 18:25 diamondmx says:
You spawncamped in Real Life? In the maternity ward?! That’s low,man.
28/09/2011 at 01:51 Dozer says:
Nah. To spawncamp a helicopter you wait with the RPG at the hangar doors of the factory.
27/09/2011 at 15:57 psyk says:
Strange and you think they would of put “reconstruction” at the bottom, but it did seem to happen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNHNS1krOEs&feature=related.
27/09/2011 at 16:17 psyk says:
And from the bi link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIgNj43S9sE the correct footage
27/09/2011 at 16:00 DoctorBrain says:
A shame they didn’t show footage of the ArmA 2 battlebus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coRoRTWPb-4
27/09/2011 at 16:03 Valdyr says:
They left out the genuine terrorist radio chatter.
ENEMY,
CHOPPER
800 meters.
to the
FRONT
27/09/2011 at 16:03 c-Row says:
I love how the truck jumps up a foot or two at 0:43 and the producers probably just thought that no one would notice…
27/09/2011 at 16:03 LTK says:
They go on to say that nobody was killed in the attack, then in the original footage the helicopter crashes to the ground in a big fireball. They must have been tickling their own throat, that’s how far they went to pull this shit out of their ass.
27/09/2011 at 16:10 Gundrea says:
It’s the smoke that kills you.
28/09/2011 at 12:52 Christian O. says:
What smoke does, and this is where it gets interesting, chokes you. And if we choke, what can’t we do? We can’t breathe! And if we can’t breathe what do we do?
27/09/2011 at 16:06 Wizardry says:
This is what happens when video games start having more than 16 different colours.
27/09/2011 at 18:54 westyfield says:
Haha, that made my day. In a good way. Thanks, Wizardry.
27/09/2011 at 16:12 cheesetruncheon says:
When I saw this on TV i saw it hit the helicopter and thought ‘something’s off about this’ thanks for showing me.
This Clip aside, I found the show quite informative. I was unsure whether it was actually all bullshit or not though.
27/09/2011 at 16:20 Inigo says:
OH NO. FIVE. IS DOWN. THEY BE AFTER. ME LUCKY CHARMS.
28/09/2011 at 04:54 Mattressi says:
Excellent comment – I needed that laugh :D
27/09/2011 at 16:21 Bhazor says:
Wait a second.
“ITV use fake video game footage…”
Fake?
27/09/2011 at 16:29 Athatar says:
I love the fact in the original fan edit you hear Irish music playing in the background. It must have been this that confused the producers so much.
27/09/2011 at 16:39 Daiv says:
As you can clearly see in this footage the IRA has begun training their soldiers in cutting-edge techniques such as “bunny hopping”.
27/09/2011 at 16:43 ukpanik says:
bizzare
27/09/2011 at 17:12 sinister agent says:
Just wait until they get hold of our footage of the British army’s cruel and unusual punishment for insubordination: the banana phone.
27/09/2011 at 17:38 Janek says:
Terrestrial channel of the year, ladies and gentlemen.
27/09/2011 at 17:56 sinister agent says:
I can’t be the only one wondering how the hell they’re allowed to claim that. Is there a loophole they just discovered allowing them to display it without mentioning that it was awarded in 1993?
27/09/2011 at 17:40 Renfield says:
I’m just happy no one died in this attack.
27/09/2011 at 17:57 bluebottle says:
No, but they did have to spend the next 90 minutes as a seagul flying about before the mission ended.
27/09/2011 at 17:45 cliffski says:
Feel free to tip off channel 4 news about this:
news@channel4.com
I’m sure they would enjoy covering it. I’ve emailed them, but the more the merrier :D
27/09/2011 at 17:52 Inigo says:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8792315/ITV-Gaddafi-documentary-claimed-videogame-was-terrorist-footage.html
27/09/2011 at 18:18 psyk says:
Sounds about right seeing as the vid is actually real.
27/09/2011 at 18:50 Donjo says:
That’s what was thinking, they had some kind of weird stock video game “footage” but forgot to switch it around with the actual footage. Still though. Feckin eejits.
27/09/2011 at 18:01 Zeewolf says:
I love how the physics engine bugs out for a moment there and the truck jumps. Very realistic, no wonder they were fooled!
27/09/2011 at 18:59 JayeRandom says:
Too bad they didn’t let the ARMA footage run a little longer– the sight of helicopter crewmen bailing out of the smoking helicopter and instantly getting good parafoil-type chutes really sells it.
27/09/2011 at 20:15 dcgc says:
AHAHAHAHAHAH
27/09/2011 at 20:47 rapchee says:
it’s even bugging out (truck jumping on the prone guy), how could they use this?? also the smoke puffs?? HOW???
27/09/2011 at 21:51 andyhavens says:
I guess there’s B-roll, and then there’s Not2B-roll…
27/09/2011 at 23:18 Yage says:
Gorilla marketing at its best.
Great bit of product placement.
28/09/2011 at 05:00 rei says:
*dead
28/09/2011 at 09:35 Thermal Ions says:
The video embedded in the RPS article has now been pulled.
Submitted the story to Australia’s Mediawatch (http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/). Might be good for a filler for them – they usually focus on Australian media snafu’s.
28/09/2011 at 13:14 Dammokles says:
This story is already starting to hit mainstream media:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042568/ITV-fake-footage-row-new-documentary-passes-game-IRA-gun-attack-British-helicopter.html
http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/09/28/97001-20110928FILWWW00457-itv-confond-images-de-l-ira-et-jeu-video.php