Barry Burbank Punks the Internet [View all]

Like so many local news personalities before him, WBZ Meteorologist Barry Burbank became an internet star this week for a simple but amusing blunder: holding his empty coffee cup upside down.

During the newscast, Burbank’s colleague quickly pointed this out to him, and the two joked that he doesn’t drink coffee. But a context-free screenshot of Burbank gripping his coffee cup, seemingly unaware of its orientation, quickly gained traction on social media. Before long, Instagrammer The Fat Jewish was posting the image to his 1.3 million followers with the caption, “GO HOME BARRY, YOU’RE DRUNK.” Eventually, the thing—no joke—made international news. “TV weatherman holds coffee cup UPSIDE DOWN during live broadcast,” is an actual headline in an actual British newspaper.

This seems like overkill, but maybe it caught on because the photo provides the perfect parody of the forced chipperness of morning newscasts. “Hey, we’re just here this morning, drinkin’ our coffee, bein’ Americans, just like you. And hey, while we’re here being perky, why don’t we talk about the warm front moving through the Midwest this week that could destroy your holiday weekend.”

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014/10/07/local-meteorologist-punks-internet/

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