KTVU Doesn’t Have Asiana Pilot Names, Uses Offensive Asian Sounding Substitutes
Sum Wan Phucked Up must have been working the booth at KTVU recently, because their coverage of the Asiana flight crash in San Francisco seems to have been a bit light on the fact checking when it came to pilot names. I highly doubt Sum Ting Wong, Bang Ding OW, Wi Tu Lo, and Ho Lee Fuk were piloting the flight on the day it not so gently returned to earth. Here’s the full screenshot.
For those unfamiliar, this is San Francisco’s Fox affiliate that made the mistake on air, and they are currently blaming the NTSB investigator from Washington for confirming the names to them. Nothing says “solution to racist news bit” like shifting the blame to a federal agency.
I have a question for KTVU: Did anyone bother to check this before putting it up? Legitimately? You’re telling us that several adult professionals in the TV news industry missed this? My 5-year-old cousin could have picked up on the joke. Better go out and get Sum Won Nu to handle the coverage from now on or at the very least consult lead tech guy Chiang Kai-Tech before you make your news slides.
KTVU issued a redaction on air after realizing they are, in fact, a bunch of idiots.
[via Matthew Keys on Twitter]
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13 years ago at 4:41 pm[img] http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8is3eNAg61rc2qizo1_500.gif [/img]
13 years ago at 4:41 pmI have failed twice fuck me , how do you embed a gif?
13 years ago at 4:44 pmtake out the(x) and put the link in between the quotes
13 years ago at 5:27 pmdamn i guess it auto corrects…use
13 years ago at 5:28 pmAsian jokes are just plain wong.
13 years ago at 4:59 pmI really want to see Ruger_Dern’s take on this situation
13 years ago at 5:00 pmhttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eXi5plceRXY/TvNSxeTgBMI/AAAAAAAABQo/_8cYqMoxIVA/s320/impossibru_203289.jpg
13 years ago at 5:06 pmThey rack uh disiprine!
13 years ago at 5:26 pmhttp://youtu.be/FUqDHW0jmkw
13 years ago at 5:29 pm
13 years ago at 5:39 pmThis was actually released. The Chicago Sun Times caught a lot of of heat for it. I thought it was clever.
13 years ago at 5:41 pmIt’s like Jeremy Lin with the “Chink in the Armor” headline. It wasn’t meant to be racist, sometimes shit slips by.
13 years ago at 9:30 pmWhy can’t asian’s say their L’s
13 years ago at 12:37 pmThis just in: “Black box sheds light on the details of the fatal crash. Two pilots were arguing about their math debating tactics, one pilot was walking around the cockpit looking lost, and the one left in control of the airliner was having trouble opening his eyes to see the landing strip.”
13 years ago at 5:56 pmAsians. NF
13 years ago at 10:43 pm