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The year in review: News bloopers

Mumbrella presents the best news bloopers of 2014.

VTV1. How to respond when your phone rings during an interview on live television.

 

Channel NewsAsia. Singapore’s government-friendly rolling news broadcaster probably did not endear itself to defence minister Ng Eng Hen with this inadvertently alarming headline about the missing MH370 jet.

Channel NewsAsia headline blooper

 

CNN. So CNN, what’s the capital of Indonesia?

CNN blooper

 

Business Times. A headline to forget from Singapore’s business newspaper.

Business Times headline horror

 

Xinhua News. China’s news agency did not do much to help international relations with this tweet during the APEC Summit.

Xinhua News

BBC. According to the beeb’s news ticker, the Queen is on drugs.

The Queen tested positive for morphine

 

CNN. Voters in Scotland are a model for the world’s democracies, if this poll was anything to go by.

CNN coverage of the Scottish referendum

 

Global News. Why it is probably never a great idea to co-present the weather with your dog.

 

BBC. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently paid $16 billion for a massage.

BBC news blooper

 

Nine News. The perils of live crosses, courtesy of Nine News’ coverage of the grand final of Australia’s rugby league competition.

Nine News blooper

 

The Straits Times. Singapore’s top broadsheet could have done a better job of paying tribute to “literary giant” Mohammad Ariff Ahmad, dumping a block of filler text in the second paragraph.

Straits Time “literary giant” 

 

BBC. The beeb got its Chinese zodiac year announcement horribly wrong.

Year of the whores

 

NBC 10. Presenter Alison Bologna seemed to have invented a new type of vehicle with her reporting on an accident involving a fire truck.

 

BBC. This presenter seemed to have got a sinking feeling while reading the news.

 

WBALTV. A captioning blunder of royal proportions.

Prince of whales

 

Seen any we’ve missed? Let us know and we’ll add them to our list.

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