Posted on 07/13/2013 7:20:23 AM PDT by Rusty0604
How could KTVU get something so wrong? The San Francisco TV station was the joke of the Internet today when it fell for a prank and broadcast the “names” of the four pilots on Asiana Air Flight 214. You’d think names like “Captain Sum Ting Wong” and “Wi Tu Lo” would have raised a red flag or two, but the station insisted it had verified the names with the National Transportation Safety Board.
It turns out that might be true. ABC News’ Steven Portnoy is reporting that an NTSB summer intern is responsible for confirming the obviously fake names.
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So the government is involved, in confirming this?
Uh oh.
The first person was the one who gave the names to the reporters originally.
Then the station tried to confirm the names with the NTSB and the intern understood the joke and played along with it.
Makes the person at the station look incredibly stupid.
So it was just a Former Rogue Low Level NTSB Summer Intern that gave the confirmation?
The summer intern’s name is Autumn Ladoff.
Brilliant.
You who engineered this, the King of Trolls, deserve all possible accolades.
Probably faxed the station a press release that included a phone number for confirmation. Instead of actually looking up number, intern probably just called the number provided. Public relations person simply confirmed.
Reminds me of great pranks at Heathrow calling for “Mai Kolleeg Jusvarted and Lefdaroom Dabastard, please come to the information desk.”
LOL
As I tell my kids, “I don’t care what anyone tells you, use you head.”
Elitist fools attempting to deflect attention off of their total lack of common sense.
I think we should focus this on NTSB chair Deborah Hersman. Anyone else notice her love for media facetime during the past week? Set up a news camera and watch her appear!
I remember those pranks; funny in the right circumstances.
Or this: “Will Jack Mehoff please call the service desk”.
She talked so slow and in a demeaning manner; my opinion.
Beats our writing ficticious names for library pass in our HS and hilarity ensued. Humor was more crass though...Having the evil Librarian confirming the whereabouts of Dick Hurtz or Heywood J....well you can guess the rest. Worked only one time but still a classic.
We howled with laughter! But this new one is funnier. :D
His name is probably Yue Soh Dum.
And so they remain UFOs, Unidentified Flying Orientals.
Many years ago a colleague of mine was going to a Chinese restaurant and wanted to know if I wanted anything. I said ‘yea bring me an order of won hung lo’. He said ok and walked out the door, returned a minute later, and told me I was disgusting. I admit I was, but it would have been funny if he ordered it.
I don’t know how many times I have heard ‘Mike Hunt’ paged at the Charlotte airport.
You wrote “(Hersman) talked so slow and in a demeaning manner.”
That’s a characteristic of democrat speaker training provided by Burson-Marsteller public relations firm. Hillary uses it too. (So does Diane Sawyer.) Another Burson characteristic is gesturing with a loose fist when speaking. Visualize wagging your finger at someone but loosely tucking your index finger back. Burson tells their speaker trainees that wagging a straight index finger is stern, and creating a tight closed fist is threatening, so they created this lame gesture. Watch Jay Carney for this. He’s the king of the loose fist. A-holes all!
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