Oh, how the mighty mess up

I'm a fan of the BBC, without a doubt. Their news reporting is, generally speaking, comprehensive and fairly well-balanced: they're surprisingly neutral for a government-run agency. They're pretty good about mistakes, too: the few major ones that they make, they're fairly up-front about.

Exhibit A: A case of mistaken identity.

Sometimes when a news show gets someones name wrong or something, they quietly run a correction the next day, apologize to the misidentified parties, and no great harm (usually) is done. Or, on at least one occasion, they get an expert on a live TV show, only it's actually some random guy who came into the network offices to apply for a job in the IT department. He then promptly leaves the studio, leaving the staff of the BBC to say, "Wait, who the hell is that guy who we just talked to?"