TV anchors are really not “journalists.” They are basically teleprompter readers disguised as reporters.

[TV anchors are really not “journalists.”  They are basically teleprompter readers disguised as reporters.]

[Case in point -
Back in 2013 when KTVU television station in San Francisco fired three producers after they published a series of ‘fake names’ of the pilots on-board the crashed Asiana 214 flight. This took place live on air.]

If someone came up and told you the name of the pilot flying Asiana Flight 214, which crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, was "Captain Sum Ting Wong" you'd call him out on an offensive joke, right? Unfortunately, that didn't happen during a KTVU-TV San Francisco broadcast this afternoon. KTVU, a local station serving Oakland and San Francisco, has been turning in some of the best coverage work of the crash—until one of its anchors began reading a list of pilots' "names" supposedly "confirmed" by the NTSB today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpP2S6c74Ts&feature=youtu.be