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.
CNN. So CNN, what’s the capital of Indonesia?
Business Times. A headline to forget from Singapore’s business newspaper.
Xinhua News. China’s news agency did not do much to help international relations with this tweet during the APEC Summit.
BBC. According to the beeb’s news ticker, the Queen is on drugs.
CNN. Voters in Scotland are a model for the world’s democracies, if this poll was anything to go by.
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.
Nine News. The perils of live crosses, courtesy of Nine News’ coverage of the grand final of Australia’s rugby league competition.
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.
BBC. The beeb got its Chinese zodiac year announcement horribly wrong.
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.
Seen any we’ve missed? Let us know and we’ll add them to our list.
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