Tuesday, May 16, 2006

BBC question wrong man on the Apple court case (video)

After the judgement on the Apple v Apple case was given the BBC News Team quite naturally wanted to get an expert opinion on the outcome. They expected to see Guy Kewney. What they got was another man with a similar name who just happened to be sitting in the foyer waiting to be interviewed for a job. He thought it was an unusual interview but went with it just wanting to impress...check it out for yourself. A classic moment in TV.

It later emerged that the man was Guy Goma, a business studies graduate from Congo who was there for an interview for a high level IT job with the BBC. In a rush the producer of the news program grabbed the first 'Guy' he found in the foyer.
Mr Kewney, meanwhile, was still waiting in reception when he saw the taxi driver being introduced under his name. “Anybody would have been fascinated to see me introduced live on air, as the expert witness in the studio,” he wrote on his weblog. “Me? Not fascinated; astonished! What would you feel, if, while you were sitting in that rather chilly reception area, you suddenly saw yourself — not sitting in reception, but live, on TV?” He added that it was especially surprising because the man, who spoke with a French accent, looked nothing like him. “I’m not black. I’m not-black on a startling scale; I’m fair-haired, blue-eyed, prominent-nosed, and with the sort of pale skin that makes my dermatologist wince each time I complain about an itchy mole.”

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