How does a news reader end up babbling pun-names on the air? Names almost as ridiculous as such familiar schoolyard yocks like "Wun Hung Lo" and "Suk Mai Dong?"
Corny, corny, corny. Right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XMr3QO2Sbc this is copywrong-loving Google offering the ridiculously bad Robert DeNiro routine on "Saturday Night Live" where he reads a list of "terrorist" names...all of them bad porno puns.
Now we have KTVU breathlessly falling for a childish prank because "Ho Lee Fuk" and the rest were "confirmed to the station by an intern..."
By an INTERN!
One of the most odious things about the employment world these days is that slavery isn't dead. Cheap fucks all over the place, including the major TV networks, biggest hedge fund companies and banks, and of course the Great God Google and the other Internet giants...ALL cheat young people by having them work for nothing on the promise that one day they MIGHT get a glamorous job with the company.
Disgusting, but in this case, amusing. Asiana Airlines is supposedly contemplating a lawsuit over this egregious libel. Or is it slander. Or is it...just what ARE their damages? Shouldn't these weasels be more concerned with the damage their own inexperienced pile-of-shit pilot did?
We used to get news from NEWSPAPERS. Now it's dozens and dozens of cable channels, millions of podcasts, zillions of blogs...
The few reputable places for news are even ignored because they take what they do seriously and don't open with Kanye and Kardashian and "dish" the latest TMZ pictures of wardrobe malfunctions.
How many watch NBC's nightly news or the BBC or check the New York Times website or even look for Reuters on a news feed as a sign of integrity? How often do blogger and forum idiots glance at a headline, copy it off badly, and turn it into a farce?
Is it such a surprise that with even reputable places unable to afford enough fact checkers and proofreaders...and colleges graduating simpletons who cheated their way through dumbed-down courses via Wikipedia and buying term papers off the Internet...that news broadcasters are regularly fooled, pranked and, oh yes, "spoofed?"
Hoaxing and hacking and starting rumors and all the rest of it...it's just too easy in a world where the average adult has the IQ and maturity of Justin Bieber.
Warren Zevon Lives.
Lee Ho Fooks!
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