{"id":380721,"date":"2018-10-12T22:53:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T21:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bbc-news-fails-royally-with-cringe-subtitle-gaffe-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2018-10-12T22:53:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T21:53:45","slug":"bbc-news-fails-royally-with-cringe-subtitle-gaffe-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bbc-news-fails-royally-with-cringe-subtitle-gaffe-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC News fails royally with cringe subtitle gaffe \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.10\/thumbnail\/5bc0fc5ffc7e93657a8b4640.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Despite all their recent practice reporting on every aspect of royal nuptials, BBC News managed to fail royally in their coverage of Princess Eugenie\u2019s wedding by complimenting her \u201cbeautiful breasts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The BBC ran live coverage of the hours-long event on Friday; showing the hundreds of guests arriving at St George&#8217;s Chapel in Windsor, the ceremony itself and the mind numbing send off through droves of waiting crowds afterwards.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m just glad they were fitting her &#8211; wouldn&#8217;t want them sticking out awkwardly or anything&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Quantum Entangler (@QuntumEntanglr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QuntumEntanglr\/status\/1050762034202075136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/427209-bbc-trump-tweet-royal-wedding\/\">READ MORE: Cheap shot? BBC takes aim at Trump with royal wedding crowd-size tweet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, eagle-eyed viewers were quick to ridicule the channel for their awkward subtitling gaffe when discussing the bride\u2019s dress. As guests on the Victoria Derbyshire show commented on the princess\u2019 <em>\u201cbeautiful dress,&#8221;<\/em> subtitles ran across the screen complimenting something else entirely.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201dWhat a beautiful breasts. Absolutely fitting her,\u201d<\/em> read the cringe-worthy text.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They made  a Boob there didn&#8217;t they&#8230;..&#x1f604;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MICHAEL G GRIST (@MICHAELGGRIST) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MICHAELGGRIST\/status\/1050748165455007744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Subtitles are computerised now so not a human error. <\/p>\n<p>Great because it means this will always happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Milk Media (@milkmedianewyor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/milkmedianewyor\/status\/1050700942902001664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<p>A statement from the BBC confirmed the gaffe was down to a voice recognition subtitling software error: <em>\u201cOur live subtitling service produces accuracy levels in excess of 98% but, as with all broadcasters, there are instances &#8211; particularly during live broadcasts &#8211; when mistakes happen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/441132-bbc-royal-wedding-subtitles-breasts\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite all their recent practice reporting on every aspect of royal nuptials, BBC News managed to fail royally in their coverage of Princess Eugenie\u2019s wedding by complimenting her \u201cbeautiful breasts.&#8221; The BBC ran live coverage of the hours-long event on Friday; showing the hundreds of guests arriving at St George&#8217;s Chapel in Windsor, the ceremony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":380722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}