Scary thing is, if somebody slipped in a reference to the "Orifice of the Pedophile Erect" to Biden's teleprompter feed, he'd read it right off without a hint of recognition that anything was amiss. I really do wish the fine autists at 4chan would find a way to hack into one of those teleprompters.
Actually, believe it or not, the Wi Tu Lo news broadcast incident was not actually a trolling incident. Here's how it played out (I may have a few details not quite right, but this is the gist of it).
Somebody who was acquainted with a manager/executive at the TV news station received the merry tale of Wi Tu Lo, Sum Ting Wong, et al, as an e-mail joke, knew it was a joke, and forwarded it to the aforementioned manager/executive at the station, assuming that he too would recognize it as a joke. Apparently the manager/executive was very busy, and didn't really read the e-mail, and just forwarded it to the news department at station, knowing that they had fact-checking protocols in place, and so not worried about whether or not the "information" was accurate.
The news department staffer who received it saw it was from the manager/executive, there was no indication that it was just a joke, and so assumed it was a news tip that needed to be fact-checked. The staffer may not have really read through it thoroughly either. The staffer contacted the NTSB, apparently forwarding the e-mail and then calling to follow up on it. Some clueless intern took the call, and took it upon him/herself to tell the TV news staffer that the information in the e-mail was accurate (not clear if said intern had actually read the e-mail or not, but apparently s/he did not realize it was just a joke.
So the news staffer confidently believed that the information had been fact-checked appropriately and fed it into the teleprompter that the hapless news anchor was reading from, probably taking care to transcribe it accurately, but still not to actually read it in any meaningful way (why bother? the NTSB had already confirmed it was accurate). And so it came to pass that the hapless news anchor started reading the script on-air, and part way through developed a worried expression and voice, and mumbled something about this not seeming right and needing to confirm it.
So what came off seeming like the greatest trolling incident of all time, was in fact nothing of the sort, and was really just a harsh illustration of how news outlets are always in such a rush to get new "information" out quickly that they often don't do any meaningful fact-checking.
Scary thing is, if somebody slipped in a reference to the "Orifice of the Pedophile Erect" to Biden's teleprompter feed, he'd read it right off without a hint of recognition that anything was amiss. I really do wish the fine autists at 4chan would find a way to hack into one of those teleprompters.
...Annnd the gauntlet has been thrown down.
That could dethrone the Wi Tu Lo guy as greatest troll of the early century.
Actually, believe it or not, the Wi Tu Lo news broadcast incident was not actually a trolling incident. Here's how it played out (I may have a few details not quite right, but this is the gist of it).
Somebody who was acquainted with a manager/executive at the TV news station received the merry tale of Wi Tu Lo, Sum Ting Wong, et al, as an e-mail joke, knew it was a joke, and forwarded it to the aforementioned manager/executive at the station, assuming that he too would recognize it as a joke. Apparently the manager/executive was very busy, and didn't really read the e-mail, and just forwarded it to the news department at station, knowing that they had fact-checking protocols in place, and so not worried about whether or not the "information" was accurate.
The news department staffer who received it saw it was from the manager/executive, there was no indication that it was just a joke, and so assumed it was a news tip that needed to be fact-checked. The staffer may not have really read through it thoroughly either. The staffer contacted the NTSB, apparently forwarding the e-mail and then calling to follow up on it. Some clueless intern took the call, and took it upon him/herself to tell the TV news staffer that the information in the e-mail was accurate (not clear if said intern had actually read the e-mail or not, but apparently s/he did not realize it was just a joke.
So the news staffer confidently believed that the information had been fact-checked appropriately and fed it into the teleprompter that the hapless news anchor was reading from, probably taking care to transcribe it accurately, but still not to actually read it in any meaningful way (why bother? the NTSB had already confirmed it was accurate). And so it came to pass that the hapless news anchor started reading the script on-air, and part way through developed a worried expression and voice, and mumbled something about this not seeming right and needing to confirm it.
So what came off seeming like the greatest trolling incident of all time, was in fact nothing of the sort, and was really just a harsh illustration of how news outlets are always in such a rush to get new "information" out quickly that they often don't do any meaningful fact-checking.
Lol that is true
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