BBC News presenter Lukwesa Burak gave herself a shock on Thursday after an unguarded moment was aired live on the broadcaster’s news channel.
Burak was caught stretching and saying, “Ok,” before her jaw drops when she realizes she’s still on camera.
She then sat in silence for around 30 seconds before resuming the broadcast with a story on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
One BBC News insider said the blooper was the result of a UK clip not firing properly when the channel’s world feed went to an ad break. Another said the technical error had occurred in the past.
The issue follows the BBC merging its international and domestic channels last month as part of a cost-cutting initiative that has resulted in some presenters leaving the station.
[Blooper] Just when you think you're off air… pic.twitter.com/zI8rSqReFM
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Burak was caught stretching and saying, “Ok,” before her jaw drops when she realizes she’s still on camera.
She then sat in silence for around 30 seconds before resuming the broadcast with a story on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
One BBC News insider said the blooper was the result of a UK clip not firing properly when the channel’s world feed went to an ad break. Another said the technical error had occurred in the past.
The issue follows the BBC merging its international and domestic channels last month as part of a cost-cutting initiative that has resulted in some presenters leaving the station.
[Blooper] Just when you think you're off air… pic.twitter.com/zI8rSqReFM
— Clean Feed @ The TV Room (@cleanfeed_ttvr) May 4, 2023...
- 5/4/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The BBC has apologized for not properly challenging the views of a vaccine skeptic, who claimed that Covid jabs cause heart damage during an interview on BBC News.
In a statement on Thursday, the UK broadcaster said it should have been better prepared for a live exchange with Dr Aseem Malhotra given his history of promoting vaccine hesitancy.
The interview took place on the BBC News channel last Friday, when Malhotra hijacked a conversation about cholesterol medication to claim that coronavirus vaccines “carry a cardiovascular risk.”
He was virtually unchallenged by presenter Lukwesa Burak, who simply asked: “That’s been proven medically, has it?” Malhotra replied that there is “lots of data” to support his claim, before calling for the suspension of the vaccine rollout.
The reality is that Malhotra’s research has been debunked by Health Feedback, a World Health Organization-backed group that verifies scientific claims made about vaccine safety in the media.
In a statement on Thursday, the UK broadcaster said it should have been better prepared for a live exchange with Dr Aseem Malhotra given his history of promoting vaccine hesitancy.
The interview took place on the BBC News channel last Friday, when Malhotra hijacked a conversation about cholesterol medication to claim that coronavirus vaccines “carry a cardiovascular risk.”
He was virtually unchallenged by presenter Lukwesa Burak, who simply asked: “That’s been proven medically, has it?” Malhotra replied that there is “lots of data” to support his claim, before calling for the suspension of the vaccine rollout.
The reality is that Malhotra’s research has been debunked by Health Feedback, a World Health Organization-backed group that verifies scientific claims made about vaccine safety in the media.
- 1/19/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
The BBC has stoked controversy after giving a virtually unchallenged platform to a Covid jab critic on its rolling news channel.
The UK broadcaster interviewed Dr Aseem Malhotra about a cholesterol medication story on Friday morning, but the vaccine sceptic hijacked the conversation to fan conspiracies about Covid shots.
The exchange is going viral in anti-vax circles on social media. The BBC said it was later rebutted on-air by a leading professor, who represented the “overwhelming scientific consensus on the vaccine.”
Malhotra told BBC presenter Lukwesa Burak that his research had shown that coronavirus vaccines “carry a cardiovascular risk.” He said they had contributed to 30,000 excess deaths involving heart disease in the UK since the pandemic began.
“That’s been proven medically, has it?” Burak asked.
Malhotra replied that there is “lots of data” to support his claim. “The vaccine has certainly helped people who are high risk, but now...
The UK broadcaster interviewed Dr Aseem Malhotra about a cholesterol medication story on Friday morning, but the vaccine sceptic hijacked the conversation to fan conspiracies about Covid shots.
The exchange is going viral in anti-vax circles on social media. The BBC said it was later rebutted on-air by a leading professor, who represented the “overwhelming scientific consensus on the vaccine.”
Malhotra told BBC presenter Lukwesa Burak that his research had shown that coronavirus vaccines “carry a cardiovascular risk.” He said they had contributed to 30,000 excess deaths involving heart disease in the UK since the pandemic began.
“That’s been proven medically, has it?” Burak asked.
Malhotra replied that there is “lots of data” to support his claim. “The vaccine has certainly helped people who are high risk, but now...
- 1/13/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
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