I thought everyone knew about Brasilia being the capital. A classic of its type, a city that didn't demand to be built except by politicians and ambitious modernist architects.
Incidentally, why did the BBC1 presentation announcer say the BAFTAs were ''live from the Theatre Royal'' when in fact it was taped ?
These days unless it was recorded on HD-Cam I doubt if "tape" was involved at all, maybe we should start saying 'memorised' or 'hard disked' to indicate a non live programme!
Mind you taped is still better than saying "filmed".
These days unless it was recorded on HD-Cam I doubt if "tape" was involved at all, maybe we should start saying 'memorised' or 'hard disked' to indicate a non live programme!
Mind you taped is still better than saying "filmed".
Even worse is talking about ''filming'' what is actually a live event, you get it a lot in the papers
Earlier on yesterday evening on BBC1, the announcer promoted a programme aired later in the evening about Rio De Janeiro, he said that Rio is the capital of Brazil, which of course it is not - Brasilia is. I don't expect that sort of thing.
I'm in agreement with you on this one. Taken on a world-wide scale the mistake in itself is not earth shattering, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the BBC to get things like this correct.
I happened to watch the BBC news after the Bafta awards programme last night and noted that one of the inlaid captions was spelt 'Febuary' instead of 'February'. Again, not important on it's own, but I would expect them to get basic things like that correct.
Viewers and listeners turn to the major broadcasters because they expect them to set a good example. It's all too easy to shrug shoulders and say does it matter?
There are often miss-spellings on the red button service, you would think they would have a spell checker or even an old fashioned dictionary. Not uncommon to find world news in the UK news section either. I just assume it's all staffed by untrained work experience people, no point in getting upset about it.
Earlier on yesterday evening on BBC1, the announcer promoted a programme aired later in the evening about Rio De Janeiro, he said that Rio is the capital of Brazil, which of course it is not - Brasilia is. I don't expect that sort of thing.
This reminds me of when Daniela Ritorto (BBC News 24) said that Bill Clinton was the owner of Microsoft. (still makes me laugh)
I almost cancelled my license fee in outrage, how dare someone make a mistake on TV live.
There are often miss-spellings on the red button service, you would think they would have a spell checker or even an old fashioned dictionary. Not uncommon to find world news in the UK news section either. I just assume it's all staffed by untrained work experience people, no point in getting upset about it.
Note to GMB:
employ a spell checker for such complex words as 'secretary'
I'm in agreement with you on this one. Taken on a world-wide scale the mistake in itself is not earth shattering, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the BBC to get things like this correct.
I happened to watch the BBC news after the Bafta awards programme last night and noted that one of the inlaid captions was spelt 'Febuary' instead of 'February'. Again, not important on it's own, but I would expect them to get basic things like that correct.
Viewers and listeners turn to the major broadcasters because they expect them to set a good example. It's all too easy to shrug shoulders and say does it matter?
and since when has it become an outrageous crime to correct someone. It may have been a slip of the tongue but if not then surely the announcer wouldn't mind knowing that they got it wrong and will now have the correct information.
OMG this is the end of the world.
Really all the serious things in the world you moan about something so trivial.
Who really cares - i wouldn't have gave the comment a second thought anyway , the capital of brazil hardly impacts our lives unless it was a pub quiz question.
OP is either a troll or someone who needs to get a life.
As bad as those idiots who moan about rubbish to ofcom.
Huw was interviewing Joshua Raymond on the BBC News Channel, regarding the Pfizer/AstraZeneca story, and at one point, intended to say ‘city’ but it came out as ‘sh*tty’
He immediately apologised, without drawing any more attention to the gaffe than was necessary, before continuing with his comments. Very well handled, really.
Earlier on yesterday evening on BBC1, the announcer promoted a programme aired later in the evening about Rio De Janeiro, he said that Rio is the capital of Brazil, which of course it is not - Brasilia is. I don't expect that sort of thing.
Have you ever made a mistake at work ?
Also as the programme they were promoting was the Michael Palin one on the history of Brazil and how it started right up to today are you sure they didn't say "former capital"
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They won't get Australia, New Zealand or Canada wrong though. They must know their capitals are Sydney, Auckland, and Montreal. maybe
If you watched the excellent and very funny Canadian Bacon you'd know the capital of Canada is Toronto.
These days unless it was recorded on HD-Cam I doubt if "tape" was involved at all, maybe we should start saying 'memorised' or 'hard disked' to indicate a non live programme!
Mind you taped is still better than saying "filmed".
Is it?
I thought the capital of Canada was New York?
Canada is in the USA, right?
Even worse is talking about ''filming'' what is actually a live event, you get it a lot in the papers
I'm in agreement with you on this one. Taken on a world-wide scale the mistake in itself is not earth shattering, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the BBC to get things like this correct.
I happened to watch the BBC news after the Bafta awards programme last night and noted that one of the inlaid captions was spelt 'Febuary' instead of 'February'. Again, not important on it's own, but I would expect them to get basic things like that correct.
Viewers and listeners turn to the major broadcasters because they expect them to set a good example. It's all too easy to shrug shoulders and say does it matter?
There's a lot of Canadians seething at that post
Is it worse than calling something 'live' because it was 'recorded as live' many months or years ago?
This reminds me of when Daniela Ritorto (BBC News 24) said that Bill Clinton was the owner of Microsoft. (still makes me laugh)
I almost cancelled my license fee in outrage, how dare someone make a mistake on TV live.
Everything is live at the point of recording:D
Note to GMB:
employ a spell checker for such complex words as 'secretary'
The other recent one I've heard its complaints that the World Cup merchandise for "Brasil 2014" is spelt wrong.... ;-)
I don't know whatcha talkin' aboot eh?
Really all the serious things in the world you moan about something so trivial.
Who really cares - i wouldn't have gave the comment a second thought anyway , the capital of brazil hardly impacts our lives unless it was a pub quiz question.
OP is either a troll or someone who needs to get a life.
As bad as those idiots who moan about rubbish to ofcom.
Huw was interviewing Joshua Raymond on the BBC News Channel, regarding the Pfizer/AstraZeneca story, and at one point, intended to say ‘city’ but it came out as ‘sh*tty’
He immediately apologised, without drawing any more attention to the gaffe than was necessary, before continuing with his comments. Very well handled, really.
See it here for a limited period (at 17:05):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcnews
No you expect everyone to be perfect 24 hours a day, they are human, humans make errors.
I am sure you have made some mistakes in your life at some point.
Have you ever made a mistake at work ?
Also as the programme they were promoting was the Michael Palin one on the history of Brazil and how it started right up to today are you sure they didn't say "former capital"
To put it simply (and as politely as I can as otherwise I'd get banned if I said what I really wanted to say), get over yourself.
Scrap the BBC!!!!