BBC Apologises For Putting Halo Into Syria Story

[drop2]On Thursday, the BBC news channel ran a story about Russia’s accusations towards the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Russia agrees with Amnesty International’s assertion that the Security Council hasn’t done anything like enough to help protect civil liberties protesters from regular violence and massacre at the hands of their government in the volatile state.

An important story, and one which deserves as much attention as possible.

Unfortunately, when an overworked (I assume) BBC researcher typed in “UNSC” to Google Images, they got the logo for the United Nations Space Command (UNSC). That, as yet entirely fictional, body doesn’t have much input into the humanitarian crises in Syria, what with it being made up to appear in the Halo series of videogames.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY2cE_FpOaY

The BBC has apologised for the mistake today saying “BBC News makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all images broadcast, however very occasionally mistakes do happen. 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.”

No real harm done but a silly mistake and an oversight which could have been avoided.

Source: Eurogamer

14 Comments

  1. How on earth did they confuse that with the UN logo? Seems like the work experience lad may have pulled a prank on the BBC or it was a rushed job and the person was looking at Halo logos thus using this.

    Great to see our cash being used for advertising Halo. :P

    • well the UN security council, UNSC, doesn’t really have a logo.

  2. The first occurrence of this picture when you type ‘UNSC logo’ into Google images is blog.zombiepandemic.com, which is where they likely got it from.

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