{"id":36621,"date":"2013-07-13T12:08:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T16:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36621"},"modified":"2013-07-13T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T16:21:13","slug":"half-assed-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36621","title":{"rendered":"Half-assed media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here at TAH we’ve watched the media get basic facts wrong when it comes to veterans, but this one takes the cake. KTVU<\/a> in San Francisco reported obviously false names for the pilots of the Asiana Airlines plane that crashed there the other day. Seriously, who among you would have let this air? From the Daily News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Anchor Tori Campbell of KTVU said on the air Friday that the Asiana jet crew, flying from Seoul, consisted of “Captain Sum Ting Wong,” “Wi Tu Lo,” “Ho Lee Fuk,” and “Bang Ding Ow.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The station claimed that the NTSB verified the names but;<\/p>\n

The NTSB confirmed to the Daily News in a statement issued Friday evening that a summer intern — and not an NTSB official — mistakenly confirmed the names of those on the doomed flight.<\/p>\n

They said the intern “acted outside the scope of his authority when he erroneously confirmed the names of the flight crew on the aircraft.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Regardless, given the names involved, how stupid does someone have to be to broadcast those names as news? Apparently, not too stupid for the San Fran media market. From Politico<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, we never read the names out loud, phonetically sounding them out,\u201d anchor Frank Somerville said, adding that the station also didn\u2019t ask the position of the person within the NTSB giving them the ultimately erroneous information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well I never read them out loud, either, but I noticed the problem right away;<\/p>\n