The BBC has issued an apology after a news ticker briefly announced that Manchester United are rubbish
The Corporation said that a trainee was learning how to write text for the ticker and accidentally published them onto the BBC News Channel.
Two hours after the incident the anchor on the channel said:
“A little earlier, some of you may have noticed something pretty unusual on the ticker that runs along the bottom of the screen with news, making a comment about Manchester United,” the host said. “I hope that Manchester United fans weren’t offended by it.” In an explanation for the “mistake”, she added: “Behind the scenes, someone was training to learn how to use the ticker and to put text on the ticker.
“So they were just writing random things, not in earnest. That comment appeared, so apologies if you saw that and you were offended and you’re a fan of Man United, but certainly that was a mistake. It wasn’t meant to appear on the screen so that was what happened. We just thought we’d better explain that to you.”
