Back in September of 2011 ITV aired a documentary about Terrorism regarding the UK and a slight piece of footage used landed the TV company in a lot of trouble as it was not "official" footage of Gaddafi shooting down a helicopter but a lovely bit of footage of Bohemia Software's ARMA II. 

I got a hold of ARMA's producers Bohemia Software who looked into the matter, they responded eloquently saying they were "not aware of this at all" and how it was "weird to see [their] game used this way especially considering the journalists were simply unable to tell the difference between reality and game footage..." They said back in October, they were "gathering further information about the matter but [they] already had a chance to see the documentary and so far [was] not sure how could they make such an obvious mistake" 

So it seems the shoe is on the other foot as ITV was finally investigated by British Communications Commission OfCom for their practices on the telly and the report was incredibly scathing. Ofcom described the footage being used as "Gaddafi shooting down a helicopter" during a time when Gaddafi himself was in the news repeatedly, was a "signifcant breach of audience trust." Ofcom's full report claimed that ITV had not taken as much as action as they should have and that Ofcom "considered that there were 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 Ofcom report read. "As such,"  they followed up with, "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 in the magical land of ITV, their story stays the same... "human error." Yeah...that's not gonna fly.

Via [ConnectedConsoles]

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