> For those who haven't already, I highly recommend watching the first minute or two of this interview [sic]… the look on this poor guy's face is priceless!
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http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=guy+goma+kewney
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> SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/270326_bbc16.html
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> This Guy's no expert – but he does the interview
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> Tuesday, May 16, 2006
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> By DANICA KIRKA
> THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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> LONDON – The BBC interviewed the wrong Guy.
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> The network has apologized to its viewers for a studio mix-up that resulted in a man mistakenly appearing on live television as Guy Kewney – an expert on Internet music downloads.
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> In fact the man was Guy Goma, a Congolese man applying for a technology-related job with the British Broadcasting Corp. Goma followed an employee to the studio after a mistake at a reception desk, the corporation said Monday.
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> The case of mistaken identity occurred May 8 – the day Britain's High Court awarded Apple Computer a victory in a lawsuit against Apple Corps, The Beatles' commercial arm.
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> In a reaction piece after the verdict, the BBC News 24 consumer affairs correspondent Karen Bowerman welcomed someone she believed was computer expert Kewney.
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> After she introduced him, there was a moment when Goma winced. He scrunched his face in panic and tried to open his mouth as if to explain.
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> "Were you surprised by this verdict today?" Bowerman asked.
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> "I'm very surprised to see the verdict come on me because I was not expecting that," he said. "When I came, they told me something else."
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> Nonplussed, he pressed on, growing more confident in his punditry as the interview progressed. He gamely delivered his opinion on the future of music downloads and cybercafes following the landmark verdict.
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> Meanwhile, the real Kewney, who was waiting to be taken to the studio, looked up on a monitor and found another man in the interviewee's chair.
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> Kewney said on his blog that he was amused at first – but then thought that viewers would think he did not know his subject, hurting his reputation.
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> Producers apparently realized by the end of the interview that something had gone wrong – and, after they had gone off the air, asked their "expert" if there was a problem.
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> Goma told the BBC his interview was stressful but added he was prepared to return to the airwaves. He said he was "happy to speak about any situation."
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