Six days after the Asiana flight 214 crashed into the San Francisco International Airport on July 6, KTVU morning anchor Tori Campbell said the station has confirmed the names of the drivers and began to read aloud and shown simultaneously on the screens of viewers. The names read by Campbell - "Captain Sum Ting Wong", "The Wi You", "Ho Lee Fu" and "Bang, Ding Ow" - have been confirmed by an internship at the Federal Aviation Administration, but apparently not read aloud to the broadcast station.
Although Campbell and the station quickly issued an apology, did not stop spreading clips video sharing sites and social networks flood. But the Fox television affiliate has reached a new solution to the embarrassing situation: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which requires websites to remove copyrighted material at the request of the copyright holder.
Some of the videos submitted by viewers have disappeared from the Internet, with messages that say: "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by KTVU."
As the season certainly has the right to protect their copyrighted material, is not the main objective of the clip-mining campaign, according to Tom Ramponi, station general manager and vice-president.
"The accidental mistake we did was insensitive and offensive," said Raponi MediaBistro Mondays. "Today, most people have seen. At this point, keep showing the video is insensitive and offensive, especially to many in our community have offended Asian. According to our apologies, we carry through our responsibility to minimize the unthinking repetition of images for others ".
Three people died and over 180 were injured when Asiana Boeing 777 crashed on the runway while trying to land at San Francisco International Airport.
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