TV Station’s Video Game Footage Brainfart Investigated

Remember when that British documentary used footage from a game and claimed it was a secret IRA recording? Well, looks like it’s finally come back to bite them.

ITV, who produced and aired the documentary last year, has been investigated by British communications watchdog Ofcom, and the report is pretty scathing.

Ofcom describes the bungle, which claimed footage from Arma 2 was footage of weapons supplied by Gaddafi shooting down a helicopter, as a "significant breach of audience trust."

“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,” the report read. “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.”

Meanwhile ITV is still claiming it was “human error.” Nice try – no graphics are that realistic.

[Guardian]