As you can see in the above image, the BBC has their television hooked up to a Wii and are apparently getting their headlines from Nintendo's console. This was all discovered when a tipster wrote in to Game | Life informing them of this. What's even funnier is that it was taken from World Business Report on BBC World, which is pretty much as serious as a news program comes.
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2-14-2007 @ 2:16PM
soledad said...
are you sure they arent just doing a story on the wii news channel?
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2-14-2007 @ 3:46PM
Silver R. Wolfe said...
Awesome jumping of conclusions!
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2-14-2007 @ 4:08PM
Billy_McBong said...
yeah it seems more likely that they are doing a story on the Wii
but if there not then this is funny as shit
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2-14-2007 @ 4:27PM
Mr Khan said...
Nope, according to the link, it was a story about the whole Google and YouTube piracy thing
This is wild, it would be like if the people from Gallup started taking thier results from the new Everybody Votes
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2-15-2007 @ 2:12AM
Shadow said...
That's the most proffesional news setting I've ever seen, ever. This is no surprise, however. News programs do this sort of thing all of the time. Do you think they actually get all of their news stories on their own? News programs often times use local newspapers, and even other News Programs to get their stories. If one local news program starts at 11:00, and another starts at 10:00, you better believe that the 11 o' clock news is getting some stories from the 10 o' clock news.
One of these days try this. Watch a news program that starts an hour before another news program. Then watch the news program that runs after the first one. Don't be surprised if you see familiar stories that sometimes seem like they're almost taken word for word.
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2-15-2007 @ 12:35PM
Chocolate Starfish said...
It's not that they're stealing from eachother. It's because they all buy their stories from the likes of the Associate Press.
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2-15-2007 @ 3:26PM
Michael said...
Thats what I was thinking too, @1. Story on the wii...
But Wouldn't it be funny if it wasn't and they just it on in the background? =)
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