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As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, it soon became clear that the names were fakes and possibly meant to make fun of the fact that many of the passengers on Saturday's crash were Asian:
The names were actually the entire reason it was funny. May the dead rest in peace but let's be honest, that was hilarious. Mainly at how damn dumb the anchor/editors were.Oh, FFS. This PC bullshit has become insane. They were punked, and now they are trying to make it into some kind of racist hate crime. The name of the airline is Asiana, from Korea. Should a person doing a hoax have used Scottish names?
The names were actually the entire reason it was funny. May the dead rest in peace but let's be honest, that was hilarious. Mainly at how damn dumb the anchor/editors were.
Occam's Banana had a very good post in the other thread that should be transferred. Matt touched on it a little but this is very troubling to have happened.
It's got nothing to with perceptiveness. It's got everything to do with the deliberate and willful supression of perception in favor of what some "government official" told them (in this case, a "summer intern," no less!).
Notice that the professional teleprompter reader went out of her way to pronounce "Ho Lee Fuk" as "Holy Fook" instead of "Holy Fuck." There is just no way that was accidental - or that it did not prompt any "hey, waitaminnit" reactions in the minds of the producers, etc.
The problem is not that they do this because they are dumb. They are not.
The problem is that they do this despite the fact that they are not dumb. That is a much bigger and more serious problem.
IOW: They know better - but they do it anyway, because the government told them so. "We're gonna repeat this as if it were serious, despite our perception that it is stupid & fake - because it is what some bureaucrat told us."
Are these really racist?
And besides, this is however just further proof that the media just parrots what the government feeds it without any sort of independent research.
Video of the fake names read on TV. Do not watch it with food in your mouth![]()
How could the news anchor miss second name on list "we too low" while she was reading it?
I'm calling BS on the "summer intern" dealie.
So what is the name of the supposed intern who fooled the TV station?
Not buying it.
I'm calling BS on the "summer intern" dealie.
So what is the name of the supposed intern who fooled the TV station?
And as a result, at least one station aired this graphic:
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And as a result, at least one station aired this graphic:
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