If I were working at the NTSB and you called me with a list of such ridiculously-, obviously-fake names, I could envision myself thinking the caller was trying to punk *me* and sarcastically confirming the names, just going along with what I perceived to be a tasteless joke, from my perspective. I would never in a million years think that it wouldn't be obvious to the dumbest human alive that those were fake names. All you have to do is speak them aloud.
Doug Fields
Tampa, FL
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Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: KTVU Officially Becomes Worst TV Station
In US
From: Steve Timko <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, July 16, 2013 10:36 am
To: [email protected]
If I contacted the FAA and they confirmed the names, I would have reported it myself. What's being overlooked here is that an FAA summer intern apparently thought it would be funny to punk the news station.On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:24 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote:KTVU doesn't use "Fox 2" during its newscasts (it's always either "KTVU" or "Channel 2" or both). Unfortunately but expectedly, that didn't stop Internet commenters from pulling out the "what do you expect from Fox News?" lines over this whole incident, even though the station is owned by Cox and was doing news for decades before they affiliated (and had until last week a pretty good reputation as a news shop).I was going to point this out too - KTVU is not Fox-like at all, and I usually have to remind myself that it is a Fox affiliate.I agree with Hank who notes in another post in this thread that the quality of KTVU's news operation has been in some decline, but I think it is still better than the competition (I know, not saying much). As I noted at the time, I thought their coverage on the day of the crash was pretty good. And they seem to have issued a real and timely apology for this mistake.
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