In this week's edition of Zooming In, Gelf's quasi-weekly roundup of undercovered local stories from around the world: retro communistic Czech chique; a baby panda blog; and vigilante Johannesburg justice. One of our favorites deals with inadvertent porn on a Swedish public broadcasting channel.

Paul Antonson

During a newscast about the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire (about 4 minutes into this YouTube clip), the public broadcasting channel SVT displayed hard-core pornography on the bottom right screen of a bank of televisions behind the presenter. It was, or course, entirely accidental. According to the Associated Press, some employees had been watching a sports show earlier on the channel Canal Plus, which often switches to pornographic shows after dark. The accidentally re-broadcast movie was a Czech film called Sex Tails, which features both oral and anal sex. "I am shocked and upset," Magnus Åkerlund, a boss at SVT, told The Local. "It is crazy."

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