BBC –The Big Blunder Corporation

As usual I had been listening to BBC news on my radio, at 6:30 am (IST). You get it at the frequency of 596 KHz, in northern India, in other way it is on Short Wave (SW) 6.30 MHz

At around 6:45 am news about the present condition of finance in America was on air. Precisely it was about the conversion of a private bank to a nationalized one. I don’t remember what name was that of bank. It was surprising for us to hear that. At one side, in India, where we are going private leaving the national mark behind, America is doing the opposite. Well! This may be true due to the present economic condition.

For the detailed report a reporter was presented, and off course he was speaking in English. As usual, in the Hindi telecast of the BBC news they convert any foreign language to Hindi, whether it is English or any other language. Surprisingly, the voice of the reporter wasn’t dubbed and we continued to hear his thick American accented English. We thought that it might be a minor mistake. But all of a sudden I realized that the news program was continuing in English itself.

Really it was a blunder from BBC’s side. And it got better after the Hindi newsreader was kept back to air and he apologized for the technical error. I think this must be one of those blunders by BBC which occur once in a decade.