BBC mistake puts cab driver to air instead of specialist commentator
(Apparently this was on Rove last night too, but in case you missed it)
BBC news has had to apologise after an embarrasing gaff when it interviewed the wrong person, putting a cab driver to air instead of a computer industry commentator.
In every interviewers worst nightmare, the taxi driver looked stumped as reporter Karen Bowerman asked him about the High Court legal battle between Apple Computers and the Beatles' Apple Corps. Then when she put him on the spot, he stammered in a French accent: "I do not know. I eez not sure what I eez doing here."
(EDIT: Not a cabbie, but a job applicant! Even funnier, thanks for the heads up Al.
"But Mr Goma, who was wrongly identified in the press as a taxi driver, was really at the BBC for a job interview.
Mr Goma said his appearance was "very stressful" and wondered why the questions were not related to the data support cleanser job he applied for.
The mix-up occurred when a producer went to collect the expert from the wrong reception in BBC Television Centre in West London.")
Meanwhile the real commentator Guy Kewney was waiting in the reception area at the BBC Television Centre in London. He was stunned when he saw his name flash up on a video screen over a picture of his stocky black cabbie.
Kewney, a world expert on music downloading, said:
"There were several surprising things about my interview. Ignore the fact I wasn't giving it and that judging by my performance English isn't my first language. Also that I didn't seem to know much about Apple Computers, on-line music or the Beatles.
"But of all the things I can say about me, one word that really has to be deleted is 'black'."
The reporter eventually realised her mistake and cut short the interview on News 24.
Watch it here!!
www.radioinfo.com.au/audio/cabbie.wmv
BBC news has had to apologise after an embarrasing gaff when it interviewed the wrong person, putting a cab driver to air instead of a computer industry commentator.
In every interviewers worst nightmare, the taxi driver looked stumped as reporter Karen Bowerman asked him about the High Court legal battle between Apple Computers and the Beatles' Apple Corps. Then when she put him on the spot, he stammered in a French accent: "I do not know. I eez not sure what I eez doing here."
(EDIT: Not a cabbie, but a job applicant! Even funnier, thanks for the heads up Al.
"But Mr Goma, who was wrongly identified in the press as a taxi driver, was really at the BBC for a job interview.
Mr Goma said his appearance was "very stressful" and wondered why the questions were not related to the data support cleanser job he applied for.
The mix-up occurred when a producer went to collect the expert from the wrong reception in BBC Television Centre in West London.")
Meanwhile the real commentator Guy Kewney was waiting in the reception area at the BBC Television Centre in London. He was stunned when he saw his name flash up on a video screen over a picture of his stocky black cabbie.
Kewney, a world expert on music downloading, said:
"There were several surprising things about my interview. Ignore the fact I wasn't giving it and that judging by my performance English isn't my first language. Also that I didn't seem to know much about Apple Computers, on-line music or the Beatles.
"But of all the things I can say about me, one word that really has to be deleted is 'black'."
The reporter eventually realised her mistake and cut short the interview on News 24.
Watch it here!!
www.radioinfo.com.au/audio/cabbie.wmv