Last Friday, San Francisco’s KTVU-TV falsely reported the names of four pilots in the July 6 Asiana plane crash at San Francisco International Airport. Although the station confirmed the names with a summer intern at the National Transportation Safety Board, the news of this highly erroneous reporting has spread with viewers wondering how this could happen. Was it a joke gone too far? How is it possible the news station didn’t catch what were obviously phony names to most? Our media experts weigh in and discuss the possible reasons for this high profile error.
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