TV station misidentifies Asiana pilots

[forqalso]

http://youtu.be/iTCOUgVYG3o

[smoakpark]

Just turrible. How dumb must the reporter be to not notice it as she read it? People in the research room probably learned their trade from the "how to vet bar girls" thread.

[XOL123]

 this is sad but funny as hell.

[Skalliwag]

I love this.Reminds me of Captain Jenks.

[tko]

"Professional Journalists"  'nuff said.

[McFly]

Even 20mb cable modem... got to love internet in Asia (this has been happening to me a lot lately)

[MJSpattaya]

how foolish not to see that they did not have ranks, that was the give away before i even started to read them

[Kbiwanaga]

Was this real?!?

Does not seem that news station, producer,etc. could all be that stupid to let that get by them

[K20a213]

This is what happens when a news station rushes to break the news first, they present obviously fake information. Still a barrel of laughs

[thaiguyinla]

Ho Lee Sh**! 

 

Yes, that looks to be a real news report from one of the local stations in San Francisco...

 

Somebody got them but good....

 

It was the local Fox affiliate that's eating sh** now...

 

Here's a news report from the local CBS affiliate on their screw-up.

 

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/12/bay-area-fox-affiliate-pranked-into-reporting-fake-names-of-sfo-plane-crash-pilots/

[Little Evil]

Pitiful that this was on the news.  How many fails must there have been?  Lead producer, assistant producer, video graphics programmer, reporters, anchors, teleprompter programmer, teleprompter operator, broadcast script writer, editors--none of them noticed? They blamed it on a summer intern. Shit rolls downhill me thinks.  

 

I hate Fox and hope Asiana sues the crap out of them for not only defamation, but for being openly culturally insensitive (borderline racist) at a time when there were three Asian casualties. Imagine what would have happened if those were fucked up names for black people?  This will get swept under the carpet and no one will be talking about this aspect of the reporting in the weeks to come. I mean, I'm not completely humorless.  It is still a bit funny that some moron got this published so millions of people could see it. Just saying that this should have been scrutinized and highlighted a bit more in the media. The terrible part is that most people laugh at first.  I'll be the first to admit that I did, unless I really thought about it.