BBC asks long-dead Bob Marley for interview

[craigdawg]

Whoops.

LONDON (AFP) - A red-faced BBC apologised for requesting an interview with Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae legend who died 24 years ago.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1538&e=1&u=/afp/afplifestylebritain

 

[0490043]

OMFG!!!!

 

[Mr. Durden]

Ummmm. Did FOX take over the BBC or something?

 

[applemacdude]

 

[crap freakboy]

Ummmm. Did FOX take over the BBC or something?

naw just the middle classes

 

[0490043]

April fools???

 

[Nickygoat]

And they wonder why people say the BBC is dumbing down. Sure it's not an April Fool though?

 

[vouder17]

Hahahaha....but i reckon that it was just an April Fools joke..

 

[hob]

A BBC press officer, contacted by AFP in London on Friday, confirmed that the gaffe was not an April Fool's joke.

Ummm...

 

[virividox]

haha thats hilarious someone where has this guy been living? under a rock?

 

[eleveneastgate]

Sounds like someone in the BBC is smoking TOO MUCH Ganja...

 

[Santaduck]

URL for confirming this wasn't an April fool's?

 

[edesignuk]

Still smells VERY strongly of an April fools to me...

 

[Applespider]

Or a 16 year old on work experience?

 

[hob]

URL for confirming this wasn't an April fool's?

It's on the very last paragraph (or thereabouts) of the link at the top of the page!

 

[Abstract]

^^Yeah, you need to read the articles first.....


I can just see the BBC reporting their "discovery" of the death of Bob Marley in an exclusive story and interview straight from the mouths of people in the Marley Foundation!

 

[Blue Velvet]

Or a 16 year old on work experience?

After all, it was from BBC3, the yoof wing.

Wouldn't surprise me at all if it was some (not so) bright young thing with a clipboard and Armani rectangular frames...

 

[tristan]

There is a comedian named Bob Marley who's alive... maybe they got him confused.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

This reminds me of the mistake NASA made with the Mars lander and the imperial/metric units mix-up because both events are similarly embarrassing.