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Video: Watch RTE's Aengus Mac Grianna making the mother of all c*ck ups live on air
Tonight's news report didn't exactly go to plan for RTE's Aengus Mac Grianna, here's why...
The single biggest problem with live TV is that there are no do-overs, unless of course you're Aengus Mac Grianna who made the mother of all c*ck ups on tonight's late news. Like the professional that he is, Aengus stops after making a blunder while reporting on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and simply starts again. But, y'know, live.
Poor awl Aengus has been having trouble with the teleprompter lately as he messed up Roman Abramovich's name back in September. Somewhere in Dublin 4 a teleprompter operator is being strangled...
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Hat tip to Marie Claire Reilly for sending this our way.
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unknown07/12/2012 10:29 pm #5 8You're a few Apollos out...Good to see you slagging off other media facets when you're doing such a bang up job yourselves...Maybe you should just stop and start again??!? - Reportunknown07/12/2012 10:37 pm #1 4I have presented on live tv myself, er, Unknown so feel his pain. But it's a silly cock-up and hardly us going to town on RTE now is it?
- Reportunknown08/12/2012 12:09 am #1 6He is reading it off a script which is obviously wrong. Give him a break.
- Reportunknown08/12/2012 2:49 pm #1 2Everyone going mad over this, it's funny, live a little
