KTVU's Most Embarrassing Moment Five Years Ago This Week; Asiana Airlines Crash at SFO Source of 'Sum Ting Wong'; 415 Media Looks Back

WAS IT REALLY FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY?

Well yes, the actual plane crash, but even tragedy took a back seat to this.

And later on, this, which I broke here first.

It became the greatest fodder in TV News history. It was inescapable and made for spoofs all over the network TV and cable hemisphere --much to the chagrin of KTVU and its place in Bay Area and national news circles. All over the country it was Topic A; for KTVU all the wrong reasons.

Even international.

To this day, I cannot fathom how it all made the air. You'd have to choreograph a perfect crime and even at that, you would almost have to have magical powers to pull it all off. Andyou would fail and fall flat on your face. Of course you would, right?

Stephen Colbert

Not on July 12, 2013.

Keep in mind the actual Asiana crash took place six days earlier. The first images looked rather disturbing. As it turned out, it wasn't as bad as portrayed. Unless you were this young lady.

Or, maybe Tori Campbell.

The questions remain: how could she not have been curious?

Should she have named the names out loud?

What was she smoking?

Nobody knows for sure.

Tori Campbell

Tori Campbell was Not on KTVU Monday Morning But There's a Reason

Tori Campbell was NOT on the air Monday Morning on her KTVU "Mornings on 2" program, but there's a reason. A convenient reason but nonetheless interesting.

A source close to the station told me that she wasn't suspended nor reprimanded over "Namegate." In fact, Campbell had a long-ago-planned family vacation.

In this case, the timing could not have come at a better time for Campbell; not so much for KTVU.

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KTVU: Thanks For Trusting Us to Cover Up

Dear KTVU:

You have now become a punchline. Instead of acting transparent you are now in the business of trying to cover up. That is not the way to run a business based on credibility with your viewers, your affiliates, your reporters and anchors, your entire staff inside the building.

Thanks for trusting us? Excuse me.

I'm not the only one who feels this way.

In case you haven't heard, you, KTVU, has managed to make this nightmarish gaffe even worse. Apologies can only go so far and in light of your behavior since the gaffe, more is needed. It all starts at the top. Who is to blame? Where's the managers? They aren't talking, not to me nor anyone else. That's hardly the act of contrition.

In light of the latest developments, someone needs to go. Yesterday.

This isn't some lame-brain piling on top of a train wreck SF blogger. Its traction is reaching epic proportions. Trust Us? Hell, why should we trust you when it's apparent all you've done is to run and hide.

That's not the KTVU I used to know.

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