Some people WILL believe anything on the internet!

Good to see news stations checking their facts, eh?
 
From KTVU (in Oakland California)

The mass media is not here to report honest news.  They are here to sell advertising.  Real journalism no longer exists.  I don't care if its fox, msnbc, cnn, or some local network.  They are all crap.

I like that commercial....she found a French guy to date with on the internet...has to be true.

Hey, I'm all for racism!  The Human Race all the way baby.  ET can just GO HOME!
 
 

Now THIS is much better reporting!  LOL!

Well I did not do it, so I can laugh about it. Uptight people do not make a world that is any different than what it is nowadays anyway.
 

craigb
Good to see news stations checking their facts, eh?
 
From KTVU (in Oakland California)

That station will likely fire it's technical crew for that ... but it also tells you that a lot of things that many of these stations are carrying are just stuff they are hording off the Internet that ais disguised as "news" ... and posted immediately without any verification ... and sadly, this was wrong, and some people will likely be gone for it!
 
Sad that the pilots were insulted like that, irresponsibly so, for what would easily have been a mechanical failure, as much as pilot error! But all it takes is a faulty gauge somewhere!

Moshkiae
Sad that the pilots were insulted like that, irresponsibly so ...

What's as appalling as anything in this is that the news lady was so air-headed that she didn't catch on.  I could see a news announcer starting to read the list and then stop, in horror, and apologize.  But this bimbo just sailed on through, giving her best shot at correct pronunciation.
 
As to the "irresponsible" part, the airline has filed a defamation lawsuit against the station.  I don't have more details than that, but, yeah, some heads are going to roll for the f-up.

I had to bite my tounge hard to keep from laughing out loud in my cubie at work .........that was too funny....it had to be a joke.....
 
but for now
 
Gotta fly

bitflipper
Racist my as$. That's just funny. Like the credits read at the end of "Car Talk" that thank the legal team of Dewy Cheatham and Howe, or the researcher Marge Innoverra. Sum Ting Wong, indeed.

There is a remarkable difference between the example in the OP and the example offered here.
 
The Car Talk example offered here is a clever use of familiar syllables and it leverages some stereotypes of professions.
 
The example offered in the OP is a ridicule of a stereotype of the speech patterns of a population of humans that grew up speaking another language. It isn't a joke about the airline profession, it is a broad based implication that leverages a long standing and insulting stereotype based on one culture's estimation of another culture's ability to mimic its speech patterns.
 
It was clever, but I doubt I'd find it funny, even if it was part of a light hearted stand up comedy sketch.
 
Making fun of people and how they speak seems lame.
 
 
 
In the context of this circumstance I personally don't see how it can be funny.
 
 
all the best,
mike