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In reply to the discussion: Unbelievably stupid racist screw-up by Fox affiliate news anchor [View all]KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)Two probable causes here. First...they didn't have the names prior to air time and some graphics person just pumped in some "funny" names they expected to be corrected before airtime. Kinda like doing a dummy practice application and goofing around...but no one either remembered or bothered to check if the proper names were inserted until too late.
OR...someone did this to make the newspeople look bad. It's the television equivalent of a waiter spitting in their food...pissing off someone who had access to the graphics generator who put in the phony names and was sitting back watching and laughing their butts off. These kind of things are usually done right after a major staff cutback or to punk the people on the air for treating the tech staff poorly.