Danes Mistake Assassin's Creed Screenshot For Modern Syria

[Karloff]

Danes Mistake Assassin's Creed Screenshot For Modern Syria

Damascus is a beautiful city, but Assassin's Creed isn't a true representation of its current state.

A Danish television channel managed to mistake an Assassin's Creed [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/16-Assassins-Creed] screenshot for modern day Syria, and used it in a news broadcast. When social media channels began questioning its source material, head of news Jacob Nybroe swiftly apologised for the error.

The full piece, about the threat posed to Syria's cultural treasures by the ongoing violence in that country, can be seen over can be very picturesque [http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/video/index/id/65097458/]; but perhaps not quite that picturesque.

Nybroe described the incident as a terrible mistake, and "reminder to us all of the importance of verifying the sources of pictures."

Source: Times of Israel [http://www.timesofisrael.com/danish-tv-uses-videogame-as-syria-news-image/]


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[T3hSource]

Slow news today eh?At least he got the location right, and I don't want my fantasy to be broken,I'd like to imagine that you can still find something similar in today's Damascus,even if "a bit" more colorful ^_^

 

[Legion]

What is sad is this kind of thing isn't even that rare. The two major British broadcasters have each done something similar, as well as many major US news networks.

I mean seriously, it takes two minutes to verify this kind of thing and make sure the images used are legitimate, how hard can it be to have some journalistic integrity.

 

[ivc392]

"If you use Google Image Search, you will die from Google Image Search"
G. Stark

 

[Monsterfurby]

Tokyo is supposed to be very nice this time of year, as well.

 

[an annoyed writer]

This kinda reminds me of that one time, I think it was Fox news or BBC, where they thought a video from ARMA II was from an actual soldier's helmet cam. That shit was funny. Like the others said though, this shit's easy to verify.

 

[putowtin]

hahahahaha!

Imagine if you could see Altiar at the top of one of those towers!

 

[Somethingfake]

This kinda reminds me of that one time, I think it was Fox news or BBC, where they thought a video from ARMA II was from an actual soldier's helmet cam. That shit was funny. Like the others said though, this shit's easy to verify.

ITV actually http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15082177

 

[teebeeohh]

they make a convincing argument why video games are evil, look how easy those thing are to confuse with the real world.

 

[an annoyed writer]

This kinda reminds me of that one time, I think it was Fox news or BBC, where they thought a video from ARMA II was from an actual soldier's helmet cam. That shit was funny. Like the others said though, this shit's easy to verify.

ITV actually http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15082177

Ah, thank you. Thought it was a higher-profile network.

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

Seems kind of insulting to Syrians that whoever found that picture didn't think "Hmm, this does seem to be a bit too... tan."

 

[1337mokro]

And lazy reporting marches on! Though I think the AC team was quite flattered to hear that their work was mistaken for the real deal.

 

[Chessrook44]

So does this say more about the realism of video game graphics, or the stupidity of news stations?

 

[Combustion Kevin]

ya hear that?
that's the Ubisoft design team high-fiving eachother!

 

[geizr]

...
Nybroe described the incident as a terrible mistake, and "reminder to us all of the importance of verifying the sources of pictures."
...

What it really is is a lesson to have some care in one's work and not be sloppy, in general.

 

[Some_weirdGuy]

They should totally have covered it up by saying they were videogamers and it was a bit of an in-joke they put up to see if anyone outside the videogame-loop would really notice

can you imagine the amount of cred they would have gained on the internets.