Asiana Flight 214-Pilots names from KTVU News
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Apparently they were in a hurry to be the first ones to release the names.
And yes, they apologized.
HAHAH OH MY GOD. I swear I found a picture on facebook somewhere with those fake words. haah
also damn, my local news station too! xD
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People. SERIOUSLY. How could anyone say those "names" and not realise what they meant?
Ho Lee Fuk is right. -_______-
I get that news anchors are pretty much trained to reflexively read off the teleprompter but seriously people? How did no one catch these were not really names, there are several places where people were in a position to go "um hey guys these are prank names".
Do they not have a fact checker? Shit like this is what happens when news outlets care more about being the first one to say something rather than if there's any actual proof to the story.
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I feel so bad for laughing at this... looks like someone got fired today :P
That just made my day, oh my God xD
this really upset me..I was abroad in China when it happened and heard about it even there. KTVU is my local news station and I actually know the news anchor who had the misfortune of reading the fake names... people are saying terrible things about her and she's had to take a leave of absence from work. I feel that it's extremely unfair that many people in the public are blaming Tori for reading the names, when in reality she was the last person at the station (after a long line of others) who read the names - the person who called the agency and received the fake names, the news director, whoever wrote the news report itself, whoever put the news report into the teleprompter... and while yes I think the names are offensive and it's a terrible joke that some intern thought was funny, I think Asiana is utilizing this incident to shift the focus from the fact that their pilots were inexperienced and did not know what they were doing to a news station that did not fact check. Lives were not claimed from this improper news report.
