777 Jet crashes at SFO

Krlilies
Sun, 14 Jul 2013 14:01:57 +0000

Original Statement from AAJA:

Words cannot adequately express the outrage we, at the Asian American Journalists Association, feel over KTVU’s on-air blunder that made a mockery of the Asiana Airlines tragedy and offended so many loyal viewers of the San Francisco Bay Area station.
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Unfortunately those names were not only wrong, but grossly offensive. We won’t repeat the names, which caricatured Asian names.
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The station apologized later in the same newscast. Still, we fail to understand how a television news station with such a vaunted reputation could have fallen victim to such juvenile antics.

We are hardly satisfied with the station’s statements, and its unwillingness to help us understand how the gaffe originated.
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Even if the NTSB confirmed the information, the names originated from somewhere — and we fail to understand how those obviously phony names could escape detection before appearing on the broadcast and were spoken by the news anchor.
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But we’re mostly saddened that a tragedy that took the lives of three people and injured scores of other passengers could be taken as an opportunity for an apparent joke.
We urge KTVU to offer a better explanation.

[Asian American Journalists Association ? UPDATED STATEMENT: KTVU makes embarrassing gaffe in identifying wrong names for Asiana pilots](http://www.aaja.org/ktvu-gaffe/)