The Most Ridiculous 30 Seconds of News You’ve Ever Seen

This is so crazy I almost can’t believe it happened. In its reporting of Asiana Airlines flight 214’s frightening crash landing at San Francisco airport, bay area television station KTVU identified the pilots of the plane as: Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Li Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow. This happened on air.

Amazingly, the story is even more unbelievable than that.  Days earlier, KTVU news director Lee Rosenthal was bragging about how good his news operation had performed.

“Being first on air and on every platform in all aspects of our coverage was a great accomplishment, but being 100% accurate, effectively using our great sources and social media without putting a single piece of erroneous information on our air, is what we are most proud of as a newsroom.”

Make up your own mind.

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11 thoughts on “The Most Ridiculous 30 Seconds of News You’ve Ever Seen”

  1. “We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
    Comes on at five
    She can tell you ’bout the plane crash with a gleam
    In her eye” (Don Henley, “Dirty Laundry”.)

    “Sum Ting Wong” is such an old joke it’s hard to understand how the talking head didn’t pick up on it as it scrolled on the teleprompter.

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  2. The Onion has now become the MSM.

    “Dirty Laundry” by Don Henley
    I make my living off the evening news
    Just give me something
    Something I can use
    People love it when you lose
    They love dirty laundry

    Well, I coulda been an actor
    But I wound up here
    I just have to look good
    I don’t have to be clear
    Come and whisper in my ear
    Give us dirty laundry

    (CHORUS)
    Kick ’em when they’re up
    Kick ’em when they’re down
    Kick ’em when they’re up
    Kick ’em when they’re down

    Kick ’em when they’re up
    Kick ’em when they’re down
    Kick ’em when they’re up
    Kick ’em all around

    We got the bubble headed
    Bleached blonde
    Comes on at five
    She can tell you ’bout the plane crash
    With a gleam in her eye
    It’s interesting when people die
    Give us dirty laundry

    Can we film the operation
    Is the head dead yet
    You know the boys in the newsroom
    Got a running bet
    Get the widow on the set
    We need dirty laundry

    [Instrumental Interlude]

    You don’t really need to find out
    What’s going on
    You don’t really want to know
    Just how far it’s gone
    Just leave well enough alone
    Eat your dirty laundry

    (CHORUS)
    (FADED CHORUS)

    Dirty little secrets
    Dirty little lies
    We got our dirty little fingers
    In everybody’s pie
    We love to cut you down to size
    We love dirty laundry

    We can do the Innuendo
    We can dance and sing
    When it’s said and done
    We haven’t told you a thing
    We all know that Crap is King
    Give us dirty laundry

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  3. Well, if this doesn’t teach them humility, nothing ever will.
    Reminds me of the three Chinese sisters, Tu Yung Tu, Tu Dum Tu, and Sum Fun Tu. (Then too, their cousin with the hernia, Won Hung Lo.

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