Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Ho Lee Fuk Sum Ting Wong Redux: The Colbert Report

By Susan Duclos

Stephen Colbert rips into KTVU for their misreporting the names of the pilots in the Asiana flight 214 which crashed in early July. The news anchor had reported the names of the pilots were Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow.

The false report was later apologized for twice by the station as well as by the National Transportation Safety Board, who had confirmed the names for the station before they announced them live on-air.