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Danish TV uses backdrop from Assassin's Creed video game, says it's Syria
Danish TV channel apologises for mistaking Assassin's Creed for Syria
Employee believed the image from Assassin's Creed was of Damascus' skyline.
Danish television channel TV2 has apologised for using an image of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed to illustrate a news report about Syria.
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.”
http://www.gamespot.com/news/danish-tv-channel-apologises-for-mistaking-assassins-creed-for-syria-6405112