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Cabbie Interviewed on BBC
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| Ian |
London - A cabbie suffered an awkward few moments of fame when the BBC mistook him for a computer expert and interviewed him live on the flagship News 24 channel, the corporation admitted on Saturday.
The real expert was Guy Kewney, a journalist specialising in computer issues who had been invited to comment on Apple Computer's legal battle with Apple, the Beatles' music publishing company.
Awaiting his moment in a back room of the BBC studios last Monday, Kewney glanced idly at the television and was astonished to see that presenter Karen Bowerman was supposedly already interviewing him.
But the uneasy-looking black man on the screen bore no resemblance to the bearded, ginger pundit, though he was doing his best to answer Bowerman's questions.
'The wrong person was interviewed briefly on the air'
In fact, this "expert" was the taxi driver who had come to collect Kewney after his interview.
But as soon as he had arrived at the BBC building, an excitable assistant had bundled him into the studio and equipped him with a clip-on microphone before he had a chance to protest.
It was only a few seconds before the mistake became evident and the cabbie was taken off the air.
But the BBC nevertheless saw fit to issue the following official statement of apology on Saturday: "The wrong person was interviewed briefly on the air before we cut to our reporter, and we apologise to viewers for any confusion."
typical bbc nonsense, they're clowns & this shows :p
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_...47682700257S316 |
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| Shakka |
| That interview was hilarious. |
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| josh4 |
| I read somewhere it wasn't a cabbie but someone there for a job interview or whatever. This is actually a great example of how inutile (best I could do) the media can be. We're thrown these "experts" whos opinions are supposed to matter on whatever the latest newssie flavor is. For all we know they could be some random fu cker they just pulled off the street. The catch is, expert or random fu cker, the content isn't going to be much different. |
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| donnybrasco |
:haha: I loved the guy's answers!
Nice and vague...saying a lot but not really saying anything...this cabbie would make a GREAT Politician, lol. |
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