Maryam Moshiri falls victim to the same self-inflicted disaster that I’m sure all of us remote office workers have at one time or another, except in this case her Zoom-style misdemeanors were being broadcast to…the entire world.
From my favourite edition of BBC News last week:
I mean, the first story she went on to talk about apparently involved Boris Johnson at the Covid inquiry so it’s perfectly understandable.
The Guardian takes the opportunity to re-hash some other BBC classics. Here’s weather-person Tomasz Schafernaker reacting to some light jibing from his colleagues with similarly bad timing:
There was the time when Guy Goma went for his job interview at the BBC but was somehow mistaken for IT expert Guy Kewney and ended up being interviewed on air. Give him maximum credit for bluffing his way through it:
And who could forget the accidental mixup between footage of Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and a representative of an entirely different species?