The following question was presented:
So, I posted an article on the KTVU screw up where they read out the made up pilot names for the Asiana flight that crashed. I still struggle to see how you could have read the names and not realize you were being setup. At what point in reading out the names would you know you were subject to a hoax?
Results:
Ho Le Fuk was the clear winner with 57% of the votes selected from the following:
- Sum Ting Wong (29%)
- Wi Tu Lo (0%)
- Ho Le Fuk (57%)
- Bang Ding Ow (0%)
- I would not have noticed (14%)
Graphic of Results:
Analysis:
I think the person that replied that they would not have realized this was a hoax should win a) a medal for honesty and b) a job as a news reader. For me and most of the other folks, it was the Ho Le Fuk that gave it away. I'm going to be honest, I think I would have read it ... I suppose if you're a news reader then you get used to just reading what comes up on the screen, but I think I would have done a double take and then started asking questions as soon as it went off air. That may actually be what happened in that somebody at the station realized what they'd just done. Anyway ...