UnorthodoxY Archive It's wasn't what you thought

May 16, 2006

Mistaken Identity

Filed under: Life — SpaceDog @ 10:29 am

Somebody at the BBC probably feels quite stupid. Apparently they interviewed a taxi driver thinking he was an expert on internet music downloads. From the article:

Not only that, but the stocky black man with the strong French accent bore little resemblance to the picture on the expert’s website, which showed a slim white man with blue eyes and blond hair.

… and a bit later …

According to Mr Kewney, the stage manager said: “To be honest, I did think it couldn’t be you. I mean, I’ve seen your picture on your website, and he didn’t look like you.

I wrote this yesterday but never got round to posting it, since then the BBC have embraced their screw up and were running a fairly long piece on BBC News 24 this morning, interviewing both the real expert and the other dude. Kudos to them for being good sports about it. Here’s the online version of the story.

And Bonus Nonsense, photoshopped comic book covers over at Something Awful.

Flash of the headlights to Londonist for the BBC link and The Woolamaloo Gazette for the Something Awful link.

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