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.

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[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)