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BBC News 24 is a live news channel belonging to the BBC group.
The 8th of may, Guy Kewney, computer journalist at Newswireless.net, was comfortably installed in a living room of the BBC television, in the district of White City, waiting to be called in the studio to deliver its opinion about the lawsuit between Apple Computer and Apple Corps.

He was abstractedly watching at the screen installed nearby when he suddenly realized that he was the man supposed to discuss live with the journalist Karen Bowerman. Problem: the man on the screen didn't look like him at all. Instead of a white and bearded man, it was a black man apparently uncomfortable who was answering the questions.

Selected piece :

- Were you surprised by this verdict today?

- I am 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 am coming. You got an interview that's all. So a big surprise anyway.

- A big surprise, yeah, yes.

- Exactly.

- With regards to the costs involved, do you think now more people will be downloading online?

- Actually, if you can go everywhere you're gonna see a lot of people downloading to the Internet and the website, and everything they want. But I think...eh...it is much better for the development and...eh...to inform people what they want and to get the easy way and so faster if they are looking for.

- It does really seem to be the way the music industry's progressing now, that people want to go onto the website and download music.

- Exactly. You can go everywhere on the cyber cafe, and you can take...you can go easy. It is going to be an easy way for everyone to get something to the Internet.

The fake expert was actually Gut Goma, a business studies graduate, waiting to be interviewed for a position as a "Data Support Cleanser" in the station's IT department. When the assistant came and asked for Guy Kewney, he understood Guy Something, he said yes and then was escorted to the studio with a micro. The interview last less than 2 minutes. Did the journalist realize the mistake? Probably yes but....

Guy Gomas now has its own page on Wikipedia, an official website and its name returns 200,000 results on Google !.



Source : AOL info, the day after.
For those who do not know: Less known than the American manufacturer, Apple Corps is the company which represents the Beatles since 1968. Since 1980, they try to prohibit Apple from exploiting the trademark on the music market.

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