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As the title says, Danish news media TV2 News confused a screen shot from Assassin's Creed with the actual modern day Syrian capital Damascus. Currently they're being ridiculed in any way they can - as they should - and promising they'll never do it again. Now TV2 News isn't really well known for its precise and thorough journalism, but this is crazy. How can someone confuse a CGI still with real life? Screenshot:  Article: http://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samf...icle1934664.ece (In Danish) Do you goons have any recent stories of local media being incompetent, that we may all laugh about?
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 15:54 |
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| # ? May 23, 2013 08:35 |
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Fallout 3 concept art was used as terrorist propaganda: http://www.shacknews.com/article/52...ian-news-outlet
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 15:58 |
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Wasn't some military game used in a news piece once as well?
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 15:59 |
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ITV in the UK thought some camcorder footage of Arma 2, a popular modern war simulator, was the IRA shooting down aircraft. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15082177
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 16:00 |
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ToastyPotato posted:Wasn't some military game used in a news piece once as well? North Korea used Call of Duty footage of NYC, but that's not US news.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 16:01 |
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Holy poo poo, those are great. Especially the Fallout one - why would TERRORISTS hire an artist to do this? Where would they find an artist capable of this?
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 16:23 |
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Death by Cranes posted:Holy poo poo, those are great. Especially the Fallout one - why would TERRORISTS hire an artist to do this? Where would they find an artist capable of this? At Bethesda, duh. 
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 16:33 |
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Death by Cranes posted:Holy poo poo, those are great. Especially the Fallout one - why would TERRORISTS hire an artist to do this? Where would they find an artist capable of this? It was concept art that some morons reported as terrorist propaganda.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 16:45 |
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TV2 not being able to tell fiction from reality is really nothing new, they are liberals* after all. *The European kind.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 16:50 |
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This would make a good Photoshop thread. Create news headlines from video game stills.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 16:51 |
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reagan posted:It was concept art that some morons reported as terrorist propaganda. Yes... ? It would make a good photoshop thread!
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 16:52 |
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reagan posted:It was concept art that some morons reported as terrorist propaganda. He knows this.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 16:53 |
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If I were that CG artist I'd put this down in my portfolio. "Crated environment so realistic that the news mistook it for terrorism"
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 16:53 |
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Death by Cranes posted:Holy poo poo, those are great. Especially the Fallout one - why would TERRORISTS hire an artist to do this? Where would they find an artist capable of this? Like Hollywood, they contract out to Indian studios to save on labour costs. It's really hurting the domestic terrorist artists.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 17:01 |
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Catman Begins posted:Fallout 3 concept art was used as terrorist propaganda: It doesn't make it sound like they said that terrorists created it, but just used it as some sort of reference.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 17:14 |
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Besides it obviously being CG, shouldn't someone have noticed it has zero modern architecture? I mean, ancient Middle Eastern cities tend to be a bit more conservative with changing their style, but there's a limit to to that.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 17:23 |
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ToastyPotato posted:Wasn't some military game used in a news piece once as well? Could be this: http://www.computerandvideogames.co...-real-ira-film/ Which is hilarious if you watch the video since I have no idea how anyone could confuse that for real footage.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 17:28 |
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reagan posted:It was concept art that some morons reported as terrorist propaganda. BEEP BOOP *LITERAL INTERPRETATION MATRIX SET TO 100%* BOOP BOOP
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 17:29 |
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Besides it obviously being CG, shouldn't someone have noticed it has zero modern architecture? People at TV2 basically believe civilisation in that part of the world hasn't evolved at all since medieval times. I'm actually amazed they didn't just show a picture of caves.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 17:42 |
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SplitSoul posted:People at TV2 basically believe civilisation in that part of the world hasn't evolved at all since medieval times. I'm actually amazed they didn't just show a picture of caves. TV2 and everybody else in the western world! But it's OK, they said sorry today the error.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 17:45 |
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Catman Begins posted:Fallout 3 concept art was used as terrorist propaganda: mr.capps posted:This still isn't as bad as the blunder BBC made back during the 1992 Windsor Castle fire. Fancy Corndog fucked around with this message at Mar 10, 2013 around 18:36 |
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This still isn't as bad as the blunder BBC made back during the 1992 Windsor Castle fire.
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mr.capps posted:This still isn't as bad as the blunder BBC made back during the 1992 Windsor Castle fire. I know this was a long time ago, but did they ever find the plumber who they wanted for questioning?
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 18:41 |
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There's also the very fun incident concerning the radio drama of War of the Worlds.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 19:00 |
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The BBC once used the logo from Halo's United Nations Space Command in a report on the United Nations Security Council: http://www.geekosystem.com/halo-logo-bbc/ http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugge...-190012261.html
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 19:10 |
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Fancy Corndog posted:Whenever I see stuff like this, or the crude photoshops that come out of some governments, I wonder if they have incredibly crazy ideas about things that may be going on in the West. I mean, the stuff that they apparently see as "passable" for propaganda is a lot less convincing than some of the insane poo poo done on any given Friday on this board alone. Do you think Kim Jong-un might have seen the "Birds With Arms" thread on here one day and vowed to destroy America for its abominable genetic engineering practices?
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 19:46 |
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In 2006 somebody decided that a Battlefield 2 video was terrorist propaganda. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/defaul..._7-5-2006_pg4_9 http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2006/05/3874/ The video starts with the audio from a scene in Team America: World police.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 19:54 |
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It happens. Check the lower right corner of this bin Laden supporter's sign. Someone at ABC was a little careless with Google image search when they went looking for a photo of Paula Broadwell's book during the Petraeus scandal. 
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quote:Hyperreality is used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy to describe an inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced post-modern societies. Hyperreality is a way of characterizing what our consciousness defines as "real" in a world where a multitude of media can radically shape and filter an original event or experience. Some famous theorists of hyperreality include Jean Baudrillard, Albert Borgmann, Daniel Boorstin, and Umberto Eco.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 21:08 |
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Someone else took us up on the photoshop idea - this is on the news piece today that some Danish lady won some tennis competition. The text in the top says: Epic lazyness.
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Death by Cranes posted:Someone else took us up on the photoshop idea - this is on the news piece today that some Danish lady won some tennis competition. The text in the top says: Epic lazyness. http://politiken.dk/kultur/tvogradi...pisk-dovenskab/ Google Translate is really amazing by the way.
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StabMasterArson posted:ITV in the UK thought some camcorder footage of Arma 2, a popular modern war simulator, was the IRA shooting down aircraft. Here's an excerpt from the episode in question, pretty damning evidence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnKcPWTgpWM
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Death by Cranes posted:Now TV2 News isn't really well known for its precise and thorough journalism, but this is crazy. How can someone confuse a CGI still with real life? I am an artist for the news and this doesn't really shock me. Most of the time we're handed a list of a dozen graphics to create about an hour or two before the news airs. This poor artist probably just grabbed the first picture that came up in their graphics library for his search terms and threw it in there. If you look at a photo of modern Damascus it's really not THAT different:  Kinda related, I made a really violent joke version of a Burger King ad and posted it up on youtube as a "director's cut" and multiple sites linked to it as THE official commercial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV3g-Lr4kDo Slate did it, along with the official site of the actor Brixton Karnes and the website for the casting company that worked on the commercial (unfortunately those are both down now). I'm hoping that one day in the future my version will be the only one left anywhere, and people will marvel at how violent Burger King's advertising used to be.
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Tip posted:I am an artist for the news and this doesn't really shock me. Most of the time we're handed a list of a dozen graphics to create about an hour or two before the news airs. This poor artist probably just grabbed the first picture that came up in their graphics library for his search terms and threw it in there. If you look at a photo of modern Damascus it's really not THAT different: I dunno if it's that they look similar (they should) but just that it doesn't look anything like reality. Those Syrians must really love green roof garden boxes.
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| # ? Mar 11, 2013 01:35 |
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randombattle posted:I dunno if it's that they look similar (they should) but just that it doesn't look anything like reality. Those Syrians must really love green roof garden boxes. Well, we constantly use stylized interpretations and 3d models of stuff. I don't think this would have ended up being an issue except for the fact that it was recognized as game art. Would you have a problem if they used a painting of Damascus as their backdrop?
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| # ? Mar 11, 2013 02:35 |
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I'd have a problem if they used someone else's painting as a backdrop with nary a word to that person, yeah. Otherwise, no, I really couldn't care less.
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Tip posted:Well, we constantly use stylized interpretations and 3d models of stuff. I don't think this would have ended up being an issue except for the fact that it was recognized as game art. Would you have a problem if they used a painting of Damascus as their backdrop? Well yeah there is something a little weird about not making a distinction between symbolic appearance and reality, yup I would maybe have a little problem.
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Moridin920 posted:I'd have a problem if they used someone else's painting as a backdrop with nary a word to that person, yeah. Otherwise, no, I really couldn't care less. I wasn't arguing the legality or morality of the use of the picture because I have no idea whether it was a licensed usage or not. I was simply talking about the art. the black husserl posted:Well yeah there is something a little weird about not making a distinction between symbolic appearance and reality, yup I would maybe have a little problem. Am I missing something? Did the newswoman point to the photograph and say, "Here is a photo of modern Damascus"? It was just a backdrop. Do you ever watch the news? Most of the graphics are symbolic, they're window dressing. When they have a picture of a knife and police lights behind it for a story about a stabbing it's not going to be THE knife most of the time. Do you want them to put an asterisk next to every graphic and have words pop up on the bottom of the screen saying, "* artistic representation" for everything? If I'm wrong about how they used it I'm sorry, but I don't read Danish.
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| # ? Mar 11, 2013 03:10 |
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I always loved this one, though it's very subtle. Newschannel in Sweden reporting on the Swedish Public Employment Service, "Arbetsformedlingen" (the literal meaning is "work agency").  Unfortunatley, they use the wrong logo, using a parody instead: this one says "Arbetsfornedringen", which means roughly "work humiliation". (Arbetsfornedringen was actually at one point a real website that was highly critical of the Public Employment Service.) Fake Edit: A bit of a derail, but this made me thing about a beggar I see occasionally, who always has a picture of Jesus displayed in front of her. She doesn't speak English, though, because it's one of those joke images that says "Jesus is coming - everyone look busy!". Kinda sad, really... I always get the urge to give her a proper Jesus image.
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| # ? May 23, 2013 08:35 |
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I can't find a link to it but some KKK member used some Bioshock Infinite concept art that showed the US fighting off invaders(immigrants) in a major speech recently.
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