Senior IT journalist Guy Kewney was waiting to be called to be interviewed on BBC News 24 when he was shocked to hear on a nearby TV himself being introduced by the presenter.
Read Mr Kewney’s account here and a fuller explanation of what occurred on the Daily Mail‘s website here.
Over eager production staff suffering the pressures of a rolling news programme ushered on the wrong man.
The poor bloke looks horrified as he is introduced as someone else, before recovering quickly and giving some comment on music downloading. The cut to a "going live" reporter outside the court didn’t improve things as the "man on the ground" backed up the unwitting impostor’s point ("as we’ve just heard")…
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