BBC Apologises for Game of Thrones Nudity Push Notification

The BBC routinely puts American journalism to shame for its actual, you know, journalism, rather than opinion masquerading as journalism. As far as iPhone apps go, however, the BBC lacks a rather fundamental understanding of how they work.

According to The Mirror (link below), the BBC has now apologized for sending users of its app on the iPhone push notifications regarding the lack of nudity on the Season 4 finale of Game of Thrones.

The message states: "NYPD Twitter campaign 'backfires' after hashtag hijacked," then strangely adds: "Push sucks! Pull blows!" It then goes on to say: "BREAKING NEWS No nudity in latest episode of Game of Thrones!!! MORE BREAKING NEWS IIIIII like testing." Beneath the message the text seems to get more serious as it adds: "This is a breaking news story and the BBC News app will bring you updates as soon as they are available."

The app then posted a second notification saying: "We apologise for previous two test push notifications from BBC News which were sent in error." A spokesperson for BBC News told Mirror Online: "We've been in the process of testing new functionality for our Apps and a test message was sent in error this morning. "We apologise to our App users who were unnecessarily interrupted with the alert."

Why on earth anyone with an iPhone has push notifications turned on for anything, let alone a news app, is beyond me. This is iPhone 101 people. Get with the times. 

Via The Mirror