On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2013, at 7:46 AM, Bob in Jersey wrote: > >> Jim Ellwanger, to moi: >> The linked press release doesn't characterize what happened as "sending." It >> refers to those names being "confirmed" by the intern, which is something >> different. I think KTVU still deserves plenty of blame. >> >> Not if they were cold-called by the NTSB person. That still isn't clear. > > Then they still would be to blame, for not confirming the cold-called > information with another source (or not recognizing the names as a joke in > the first place, especially if they were read out over the phone -- I > strongly suspect the initial source of the names was an email). > > They also might have found that Asiana had released the actual names of the > two pilots in command way back on Sunday the 7th. > >> I also don't see any indication that the intern was fired (either in that >> press release, or in other news reports). >> >> If not, they'd better have a really-strict phone-use policy in place. -- B. > > Good, perhaps the NTSB will start having their interns do, or at least > observe, meaningful work, rather than answering phones. > > (I had three internships in college at three different local TV stations in > two cities, and never had to answer phones, or do anything else that would > have fit the job description of a receptionist/secretary/etc. -- but I > understand that I was fairly fortunate in that respect.)
I won't dive back into my opinion on internships, but the intern who answered the phone at NTSB reminded me of me when I was at CNBC. Tom Snyder was at that point rumored to be headed to CBS, but he had already told those of us on his crew. The phone rang and someone at Access Hollywood (ironically across the street from Snyder's studio) offered me $500 in cash to confirm Tom's post-Dave show. I promptly told him to go to hell and hung up the phone. A few days later, when word of what I had done reached Snyder, he pulled me aside and said, "If something like that EVER happens again, take the fucking money and run." -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
