Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The BBC confuses The United Nations Security Council with the video game Halo and Space Command.


Don't blame Master Chief John-177 - it's the BBC's own mistake.

The BBC doesn't seem sure which is the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), and which is the video game Halo's United Nations Space Command (UNSC).

The on-air graphics grabber responsible for this gaffe is clearly another of those junior-level employees of the "Google images cut-and-paste" variety who doesn't know or really care for the news and have the general knowledge of a rock.


In a hard news report by the BBC on Syria, the gold and black logo for the fictional United Nations Space Command embarrasingly showed up - clearly grabbed and in a massive fail, passing through all the relevant control checks at the BBC to make it on air instead of the real logo of the United Nations Security Council (right).

Nobody with a modicum of general knowledge - either of news or the world - or who works in news, and especially in the visual representation of news, should ever be making a mistake like this.