{"id":548796,"date":"2006-05-16T07:17:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T07:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548796-taxi-driver-mistaken-for-computer-expert.html"},"modified":"2006-05-16T07:17:40","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T07:17:40","slug":"taxi-driver-mistaken-for-computer-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548796-taxi-driver-mistaken-for-computer-expert.html","title":{"rendered":"Taxi driver mistaken for computer expert"},"content":{"rendered":"

The real expert was Guy Kewney, a journalist specialising in computer issues who had been invited to comment on Apple Computer’s legal battle with Apple Corps, the Beatles’s music publishing company. <\/font><\/p>\n

Awaiting his moment in a back room of the BBC studios last Monday, Kewney glanced idly at the television and was astonished to see that presenter Karen Bowerman was supposedly already interviewing him. <\/font><\/p>\n

But the uneasy-looking black man on the screen bore no resemblance to the bearded, ginger pundit, though he was doing his best to answer Bowerman’s questions. <\/font><\/p>\n

In fact, this "expert" was the taxi driver who had come to collect Kewney after his interview. <\/font><\/p>\n

But as soon as he had arrived at the BBC building, an excitable assistant had bundled him into the studio and equipped him with a clip-on microphone before he had a chance to protest. <\/font><\/p>\n

It was only a few seconds before the mistake became evident and the cabbie was taken off the air. <\/font><\/p>\n

But the BBC nevertheless saw fit to issue the following official statement of apology: "The wrong person was interviewed briefly on the air before we cut to our reporter, and we apologise to viewers for any confusion." <\/font><\/p>\n

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A London cabbie suffered an awkward few moments of fame when the BBC mistook him for a computer expert and interviewed him live on the flagship News 24 channel, the corporation admitted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}