TV station "identifies" SF crash pilots: Sum Ting Wong, Ho Lee Fuk, and others

They also deal with train, truck and bus accidents, too, right?

 

Yes, people of all nationalities should be on duty in all TV newsrooms around the clock. That's the takeaway from this.

 

No. Just another example of people seeing a list of names and not realizing there are difference between Korea and China. Diversity isn't about hiring a rainbow coalition, it is about not just seeing the "people like me" perspective of stories. Which becomes a problem if a newsroom is constituted with people of similar backgrounds.
We saw the same problem in the Asiana cockpit. People all from the same culture, duplicating the same mistake.

 

I cannot believe that shit actually got on the air. At a major market network affiliate station, no less. Talk about some people not paying attention. Sheesh, even I would have had suspicions about that list. One strange name? Maybe. But four? No freakin' way.

Dumbasses.

 

One of the great things about technology is that it speeds things up. You can tweet something within seconds of something happening and "the world" will know. It has also encouraged management types to "streamline" their news ops. I'd be surprised if more than three people read these names before they were loaded into the teleprompter.

 

No, it's about someone -- of whatever ethnicity -- having enough sense to question those names at first glance. If "Wi Tu Lo" doesn't set off some alarms, you shouldn't be working in news.

And what is the rush? Was the viewing public clamoring for the names of the pilots?

It's so stupid on so many levels.

 

Agreed. I'm waiting to see if it was a fake release (which I doubt) or just someone passing along a "joke" and someone misinterpreting it.

 

Sorry. Any 14-year-old of any ethnic background who speaks English should be able to see Sum Ting Wong and figure out there's something wrong.

 

It started somewhere with somebody. Find out who, expose them publicly and fire them. And issue a big public Official Press Release to announce it.

Written by a PAID STAFF MEMBER.

 

Yep. You make this happen, you allow this to happen, and you can't stay. You can't. Sorry.

 

I have no idea what motivates someone to start something like that. Strange way to get your kicks.

Still, the people at the news outlet have got to pay a little more attention and not get played to be the fool. I mean, c'mon, you seriously thought those were real names of the pilots?