KTVU producers fired over Asiana pilots' fake names

[dixiegrrrrl]

KTVU-TV has dismissed at least three veteran producers over the on-air gaffe involving the fake names of those Asiana airline pilots that became an instant YouTube hit - and a major embarrassment to the station.

Station sources confirmed late Wednesday that investigative producer Roland DeWolk, special projects producer Cristina Gastelu and producer Brad Belstock were all sent packing following an in-house investigation into the July 12 broadcast of four fake names of the pilots involved in the Asiana Flight 214 crash at San Francisco International Airport on July 6.

A fourth - noon news producer Elvin Sledge - told colleagues he was leaving for health reasons.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/KTVU-producers-fired-over-Asiana-pilots-fake-4685627.php

Oh...."the NTSB announced that it had fired a summer intern over the incident."

[leftyohiolib]

1. ktvu is snatching up all the vid clips

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Under threat of lawsuit from airlines, says the article.

Which is why heads rolled, in part.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Yanno, I always felt the on air "talent" bore some responsibility for this, too.

How big an airhead must one be to read those names and not see them for the (in bad taste) joke they were?

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. As a radio announcer explained to me once

SOME announcers do not read their copy ahead of time, for various reasons.
plus
they tend to go from seeing the prompter to saying it without thinking about the content..sort of automatically spewing the words.
Which not necessarily a negative.

That may explain why 4 producers got fired..THEY were the people responsible for vetting the actual content.

[pscot]

4. Faux news...ugh

[Brother Buzz]

6. KTVU is a Fox-affiliated television station that airs Fox entertainment, not FAUX news.

[trumad]

7. Ala Ron Burgundy

[snooper2]

8. That's fucked up, probably the most attention that station has had in years LOL