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Epic KTVU Fail: Anchor Reports Pilot Names Including Sum Ting Wongand Wi Tu Lo
By Chris Ariens on July 12, 2013 5:08 PM

On todays Noon newscast on KTVU, the station claimed it had just learned the names of the 4 pilots on boardAsiana flight 214 which crashed last Saturday. But the station was given bad information that made it all the way into the newscast. If you read the names it becomes immediately clear this is a joke, which went unnoticed by the newsroom, producers and the anchor. Youll recall earlier this week, KTVU touted its coverage as being not only first, but 100% accurate. 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,said News Director Lee Rosenthal at the time. Watch: Jobs of the Day
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About 15 minutes later the station corrected its mistake, but claimed an NTSB official had confirmed the names. Earlier in the newscast we gave some names of pilots involved in the Asiana Airlines crash. These names were not accurate despite an NTSB official in Washington confirming them late this morning. We apologize for this error. > More: Further apology from KTVU president & GM Tom Raponi: We sincerely regret the error and took immediate action to apologize, both in the newscast where the mistake occurred, as well as on our website and social media sites. Nothing is more important to us than having the highest level of accuracy and integrity, and we are reviewing our procedures to ensure this type of error

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