Face of horror

[dc]

The BBC News 24 screw-up where they somehow managed to get a chunky black guy who is clearly not English on screen to comment on the Apple v. Apple thing under the impression they had well known techno-journo Guy Kewney (who is not black, not chunky, and clearly has English as his first language) is about to be featured on Five News, any minute now.

Comments

[psychochicken.livejournal.com]

Never mind anything else - there's a man with a future in broadcasting! I'd hire him for taking that in his stride!

[tanngrisnir.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. :o)

I did wonder when I first heard about this story if his name would turn out to be Guy (which would explain why he said “Yes” when the BBC bod came for Guy Kewney), and sure enough his name is Guy Goma, and he was there for a job interview. When he was plonked down in front of a camera and asked questions about the Apple v. Apple case, he thought it was part of his interview; given some of the silly stuff that’s done in job interviews these days, that isn’t a stupid assumption. He went for it with impressive gusto.

[luvlymish.livejournal.com]

Nice when people do their research...

Thanks for the comment on my blog.

[tanngrisnir.livejournal.com]

What I loved was Guy Kewney’s description of what the studio manager said to him later: Well, to be honest, I did think it couldn’t be you. I mean, I’ve seen your picture on your web site, and he didn’t look like you.

But he did answer to the name of Guy (and for a non-English speaker, he may not have realised that Kewney was what the studio manager thought was his surname), reception said he was Guy Kewney, and most important of all he had been given a badge which said he was Guy Kewney.

It was good to run across you here and your blog looks interesting; that post on the creation myths was very interesting. Nice to (sort of) meet you too. ;o)