Pearl discovers the internet
Congratulations are in order for Hong Kong TV station Pearl, which appears to have just discovered the internet.
Last night, the channel’s news show ran a two-minute segment on a video of two babies playing peek-a-boo that has just gone viral.
The video was viewed “more than a million times in 24 hours”, the newsreader intoned breathlessly.
And here’s the clip they assumed would stun Hong Kong TV audiences presumably bored by non-stop Occupy Central coverage.
“And that’s the news,” the announcer concluded, before cutting to the weather report.
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