Face. Palm.
Local Fox affiliate KTVU had a very unfortunate noon broadcast today. How racist can a supposed "journalist" be to let this list slip by and actually make it on the air?
Captain Sum Ting Wong
Wi Tu Lo
Ho Lee Fuk
Bang Ding Ow
You would think that after reading the first name on the list the anchorwoman might have clued in. Nope.
KTVU made an on air apology and is blaming the whole thing on a summer intern at the NTSB.
http://www.ktvu.com/
"We made several mistakes when we received this information," KTVU's apology on its website read. "KTVU accepts full responsibility for this mistake."
In seeking to verify the names with the National Transportation Safety Board, an unidentified KTVU reporter who made the call to the government agency's public affairs office didn't read the names out loud. KTVU didn't clarify how the names were conveyed to the NTSB representative, who turned out to be a summer intern.
The KTVU reporter also failed to ask for the identify of the NTSB intern who confirmed the spellings of the names.
"We heard this person verify the information without questioning who they were and then rushed the names on our noon newscast," KTVU's note read.
http://www.usatoday.com/...
So, the story from a San Francisco "news" outlet is that an unnamed summer intern read letters to them over the phone, never pronouncing the names. Only Fox viewers would buy an excuse that lame.