What It Takes To Be A Talking Head On The BBC These Days

The Onion loves to mock man in the street interviews that the media enjoys. If you ever watch the local news, interviewing cab drivers seems to be popular. However, what about so called "experts" on TV news? It would appear that the BBC mistook a cab driver for an expert on the Apple v. Apple case last week, and all the Sunday papers in the UK are having fun with it. The "expert" in question is Guy Kewney, well known to anyone who closely follows the wireless space for his blog Newswireless.net, which we've linked to on more than a few occasions. Guy has a fairly distinct look and his photo is all over his site -- so it's hard to imagine the BBC team supposedly putting him on the air not noticing just how different the person they put on the air was.