BBC News mistakes 'Halo' UNSC for United Nations - video
Published May 28 2012, 20:44 BST | By Scott Nichols
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While attempting to talk about the United Nations Security Council's involvement in the ongoing conflict in Syria, the news station instead showed the fictitious United Nations Space Command emblem from the Halo series.
It appears to be the result of a Google image search gone wrong, as a simple search for UNSC only returns images from Halo. This is perhaps because the UN security council does not have a logo of its own, instead using the United Nations globe symbol.
A BBC spokesperson apologised for the mix up in a statement to Eurogamer.
"BBC News makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all images broadcast, however very occasionally mistakes do happen," they said.
"Unfortunately an incorrect logo was used during a segment on last week's News at One bulletin and we apologise to viewers for the mistake. The image was not broadcast in our later bulletins."
Watch a clip of the BBC UNSC logo gaffe below:
Anyone remember back in 2005 or 2006 when the BBC wanted to do an interview with Bob Marley who had been dead for then 24-25 years? OR the time they interviewed an "IT" person who turned out to be the taxi driver who was picking the real IT guy up or something?
May 31st 2012 at 12:22am
Priceless 'basic image search a monkey could do' fail. : )~
May 29th 2012 at 9:39am(+2 likes)
Master Chief is going in!
May 29th 2012 at 12:36am(+1 like)
Master Chief on Master Chef?
May 29th 2012 at 2:29am(+1 like)
I'm ready to sign up.
May 28th 2012 at 11:50pm
The real one is con anyway. I'd rather support SPECTRE.
May 29th 2012 at 9:38pm
Maybe the BBC are trying to tell us something,....... that maybe its time to send the Spartans into Syria and kick some ass!
May 28th 2012 at 10:18pm(+1 like)