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Danish TV channel apologises for mistaking Assassin's Creed for Syria

Employee believed the image from Assassin's Creed was of Damascus' skyline.

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Danish television channel TV2 has apologised for using an image of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed to illustrate a news report about Syria.

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The channel's head of news, Jacob Nybroe, said to the Times of Israel on Sunday that the mix-up was a terrible mistake and a "reminder to us all of the importance of verifying the sources of pictures."

Nybroe said the channel only learned about the mistake last week and said an employee for the network found the image online and believed it to be a photo of Damascus' skyline.

The shot from Assassin's Creed was broadcast behind news anchor Cecilie Beck on February 26.

In another news report about Syria last year, the BBC broadcast the logo of Halo's fictional United Nations Space Command in a report about the very real United Nations Security Council.

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Good to know my news is coming live from your local Google image search since only the most concrete fact based information taken first hand makes it onto the news these days.

*salutes*

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Fictional worlds are obviously getting hard to distinguish from the real world. That, if anything, is a badge of honor for the games industry, even if the news channel in question doesn't feel very honored by making that mistake. This isn't the first time I've heard about something like this, either.

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I just love it. This is why I don't watch TV. If I need to know something I search the Web. What a fail.

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If you listen closely, you can hear a danish intern being fired.

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this is the media we trust ladies and gentlemen . such a sick world

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@Ibra8 lol stop proyecting. YOU trust them. Don't assume everyone does it so you don't feel like an idiot.

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lol So classic!

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Has anyone confirmed that Syria actually exists? Maybe these folks are trying to tell us something. :p

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiucwC8uouk

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Oh, this is nothing, I remember a month ago a Swedish news channel "showed" adult movie in the background during live broadcast.

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Somebody at the network was trolling hard lmao

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Hahahaha

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Would be even better if Altair was somewhere in that image. Like perched on the beam on the right side.

...but really though how do you confuse a video game environment with a real picture? The graphics aren't THAT good.

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@dominoodle I bet some journalist undergraduate was in a hurry and didn't even bother reading the url of the picture he was using.

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Shows you that the west still thinks that the ME is still living in Middle Ages.

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@Chief_Death They Do! Except some areas that are the exception. The culture is still in the caveman age.

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@Chief_Death The news report was from Europe dipshit.

Just goes to show you that stupid people ( like yourself) live everywhere all over the world.

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@L0mak Haha thanks for the good laugh Mr L0mak. Please go learn some geography and politics for your sake.

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@L0mak Swing and a Miss.

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@L0mak OMG !! I smell an american here thinking theyre the only western country

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@L0mak Hahaha. Way to be a Jackass. You're the dipshit for not knowing Europe is counted as a western continent.

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@L0mak Europe is part of 'The West'


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Must be quite a compliment to the artists that worked on it

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SO EMBARRASSING! lmao

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Would anyone like a danish?

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haha i'm danish and i haven't even heard of this.

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@gufberg Really? I'm Danish too and I feel like this mistake is mentioned everywhere I look at the moment. It is hilarious, though. Ubisoft must be proud! :-)

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@Ink129 Yea. It's great publicity to have your game mistaken for a modern day panorama of Damascus.

I don't really watch our national news anymore so thats probably why i missed it.

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i like these moments.... epic !

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Onion?

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nope. real people with no idea what they're doing.

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@JustinRiden @unreal101 nope. clones

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Lol, what a fail.

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What...the...****?

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