Posted on Wednesday 28-Sep-2011 10:46 AM

ITV apologises for Arma 2 IRA blunder

Broadcaster blames "unfortunate case of human error" for mistakenly included footage

By Tom Ivan for computerandvideogames.com

ITV has apologised after a documentary screened on Monday night presented footage from Arma 2 as a secret IRA propaganda film from 1988.

ArmA 2 Screenshot
The broadcaster said the clip in question (below) showed a helicopter being shot down by the IRA using weapons supplied by Colonel Gaddafi. It was in fact fan-made Arma 2 footage.

In a statement, ITV said: "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."

[ Source: BBC ]

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    Random Hangman on 28 Sep '11 said:

    Now I have to trawl through hours of UK riot footage to see if the BBC "amusingly" inserted some GTA IV footage to back up the Evening Standard's claims... :?

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    rbt2 on 28 Sep '11 said:

    I think they should apologise more for ITV2 and continually giving The Price creature and her mahoosive cock of an ex-husband their own programmes!

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    metallicorphan on 28 Sep '11 said:

    haha...they have their own Fanboy war going on,a complaint about ITV sourced from the BBC

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    mogel94 on 28 Sep '11 said:

    I think they should apologise more for ITV2 and continually giving The Price creature and her mahoosive cock of an ex-husband their own programmes!

    I think Celebrity Juice is meant to be an apology for everything else on ITV2 at the moment :wink:

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    rbt2 on 28 Sep '11 said:

    There was a posh kid at my school, well when I say posh I mean he pronounced his aitches and was as posh as you could get round our way, who once announced that his parents only watched BBC as ITV was 'far too downmarket!'
    He regularly got beat up in the playground for this but on reflection, he, or his parents rather, were spot on.
    Poor bastard's probably got a stutter for all the hidings now.
    Or some sorta facial tick.

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    Soviet1918 on 28 Sep '11 said:

    There was a posh kid at my school, well when I say posh I mean he pronounced his aitches and was as posh as you could get round our way, who once announced that his parents only watched BBC as ITV was 'far too downmarket!'
    He regularly got beat up in the playground for this but on reflection, he, or his parents rather, were spot on.
    Poor bastard's probably got a stutter for all the hidings now.
    Or some sorta facial tick.


    Was it David Cameron?

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    rbt2 on 28 Sep '11 said:

    There was a posh kid at my school, well when I say posh I mean he pronounced his aitches and was as posh as you could get round our way, who once announced that his parents only watched BBC as ITV was 'far too downmarket!'
    He regularly got beat up in the playground for this but on reflection, he, or his parents rather, were spot on.
    Poor bastard's probably got a stutter for all the hidings now.
    Or some sorta facial tick.


    Was it David Cameron?


    Dunno.
    Hopefully it was Gordon Brown.
    Or Tony Bliar.

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    MRHONGKONGDAVE on 28 Sep '11 said:

    It was David Blunkett, he did pay the price, he also selcted the video!

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    360365 on 28 Sep '11 said:

    Wheres supernanny now, to kick off about games influencing kids.. f**kin ITV are quick to jump on the i hate games band wagon and then do somethin stupid like this... Hypocrites.

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    kimoak on 28 Sep '11 said:

    I bet there Isn't even a 'correct' clip to be found and they are trying to save further face.

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    gmcb007 on 28 Sep '11 said:

    Good, now apologise for Jeremy Kyle!

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    liveswired on 28 Sep '11 said:

    Now I have to trawl through hours of UK riot footage to see if the BBC "amusingly" inserted some GTA IV footage to back up the Evening Standard's claims... :?

    I didn't see any GTA but I did see them use footage from a multiplayer match taken from Left for Dead 2! :lol:

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    Windowlicker79 on 29 Sep '11 said:

    Here's a video of the actual documentary showing the Arma 2 footage.

    http://www.techfruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/itv-ira-videogame-590x392.jpg
    CLICK THE PIC