BBC mistakes cab driver for Net pundit on TV interview
BBC mistakes cab driver for Net pundit on TV interview: "Mark Frauenfelder:
The BBC wanted to interview Newswireless.net editor Guy Kewney about the Apple music / Apple computer decision but accidentally pulled his cab driver onto the set for a live TV interview. It makes for excellent viewing.
'I'm very surprised to see... this verdict to come on me, because I was not expecting that. When I came, they told me something else, and I'm coming, 'you got an interview,' so a big surprise, anyway.
Update: (from Guy Kewney's blog):
"OK, reset everything you've heard about my appearance on the BBC: they've found the "taxi driver" and (as I have constantly tried to explain to everybody) he isn't a taxi driver.His name is Guy Goma - which goes some way to explaining why he (and the BBC receptionist) assumed that someone asking for Guy Kewney was asking for him.And he wasn't there to pick up a fare, because he's not a cabbie. He's a Business Studies graduate, from the Congo, and he was there in reception because he was applying for a high level IT job with the BBC.Apparently the unflappable Mr Goma assumed the whole thing was some kind of initiation prank. His own speciality is data cleansing, and (my source inside the Beeb tells me) was "a little upset that nobody asked him about his data cleansing expertise."Once again, the Daily Mail proves itself to be hotter on this trail than anybody else, and a Mail reporter has been posing Mr Goma outside the White City headquarters of the BBC. A picture story will be in tomorrow's edition, apparently."
(Via Boing Boing.)