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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 9:16:51 GMT -8
Epic KTVU Fail: Anchor Reports Pilot Names Including ‘Sum Ting Wong’ and ‘Wi Tu Lo’
On today’s Noon newscast on KTVU, the station claimed it had “just learned the names of the 4 pilots on board” Asiana flight 214 which crashed last Saturday. But the station was given bad information that made it all the way into the newscast. If you read the names it becomes immediately clear this is a joke, which went unnoticed by the newsroom, producers and the anchor.
You’ll recall earlier this week, KTVU touted its coverage as being not only first, but “100% accurate.”
“Being first on air and on every platform in all aspects of our coverage was a great accomplishment, but being 100% accurate, effectively using our great sources and social media without putting a single piece of erroneous information on our air, is what we are most proud of as a newsroom,” said News Director Lee Rosenthal at the time.
About 15 minutes later the station corrected its mistake, but claimed an NTSB official had confirmed the names.
Earlier in the newscast we gave some names of pilots involved in the Asiana Airlines crash. These names were not accurate despite an NTSB official in Washington confirming them late this morning. We apologize for this error. An apology on the 6pm news: “We made several mistakes. First of all, we never read the names out loud, phonetically sounding them out.”
The names reported: "Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow"
Great journalistic work there.
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Post by ♬ pkbucko ♬ on Jul 15, 2013 9:35:22 GMT -8
That's the quality I've come to know and expect out of the media.
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Post by ✿Lexxy✿ on Jul 15, 2013 12:29:25 GMT -8
Too funny!!
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