Journalists: Your intellectual superiors

Journalists: Your intellectual superiors 2014-12-30T16:25:28-07:00

Heh:

Microsoft’s Xbox team is busy gearing up for the big E3 video game convention next week, but they must have stopped to chuckle over this inadvertent product placement.

A BBC television report on the very serious topic of the crisis in Syria inadvertently used a logo from the Halo game franchise as if it were a real United Nations emblem — providing a lesson to media  organizations everywhere about the dangers of quick online image searches.

For the record, that’s the emblem for Halo’s “United Nations Space Command,” not the real United Nations Security Council.

 


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