On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 23:26:09 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>Just how dumb can the news media be when the San Francisco TV station
>listed the names of the pilots of the crashed aircraft.
>
>One of many links
>http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...v-over-2056462
>San Francisco's KTVU Channel 2 news incorrectly named the crew of the
>doomed Boeing 777, which crashed killing three people, as Sum Ting
>Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow
>
>
>Didn't anyone look at the copy? No one thought it was a joke? The
>talking head just read the names as if they were real. Another person
>had to actually type the names to appear on the screen too.
>
>I can understand the joke when we were in junior high about Won Hung
>Lo, but this takes it to a much higher level of dumbness.

What makes me really laugh is the article's description of it as being
'sickening'. LOL. With the way they're (faux) reacting, you'd think
they were also responsible for Auschwitz.

"Asiana has decided to sue KTVU-TV to "strongly respond to its
racially discriminatory report" that disparaged Asians, spokeswoman
Lee Hyomin said"

The airline isn't any better, apparently.

Just goes to show how unintelligent, humourless and hysterical the
media is. Much like modern society, I suppose.