The KTVU reporter also failed to ask for the identiy of the NTSB intern who confirmed the spellings of the names. KTVU didn’t clarify how the names were conveyed to the NTSB representative, who turned out to be a summer intern. In seeking to verify the names with the National Transportation Safety Board, an unidentified KTVU reporter who made the call to the government agency’s public affairs office didn’t read the names out loud. Power Line links a USA Today article confirming that the NTSB did in fact confirm the names: The answer is: nope, that’s a real TV newscast. I wondered when I first saw this clip if it was a tasteless Onion-style joke newscast. One wonders if the anchor realized what was happening as she read the names out loud, probably for the first time. ![]() The TV station dutifully checked the names and then rushed them onto the air: Someone gave a local TV station the following purported names of the airline crew from that Asiana Airlines crash.
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