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Re:Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashes at SFO by jasonmccay on Saturday July 06, 2013 @04:40PM (#6000005)
KTVU is borderline comical ... they were making wild assumptions that, even using basic logic and common sense, could be dismissed. I was really surprised how unknowledgeable they seemed.

Much better to just report what you know and not try to make up information (even just claiming it as conjecture). Online sources were far more valuable.

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Re:Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashes at SFO by david_shaw on Saturday July 06, 2013 @07:41PM (#6000451)
> they were making wild assumptions that, even using basic logic and common sense

Agreed. I changed the channel (well, found a new live stream) when they said "it's likely that all or most of the passengers died" immediately after showing the photograph from the scene, showing many passengers leaving.

The caption to the photo was "I'm fine, and everyone else seems fine."

Really, KTVU?

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Re:Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashes at SFO by paul_f on Saturday July 06, 2013 @08:22PM (#6000545)
KTVU was so bad that I had to take a screenshot of their website. A photo showed people walking away from an upright plane with the copy "after wobbling for a minute, the aircraft flipped upside down, coming to a stop on runway upside down." https://twitter.com/pfreet/status/353599929039589376/photo/1

The death of journalism indeed.

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