A few minutes of fact-checking could have prevented offensive newscast

In its haste to broadcast what it thought was exclusive new information about the Asiana airliner crash, San Francisco Bay area television station

KTVU embarrassed itself, offended many of its viewers, and may have sparked a lawsuit by the airline. As I mention in this interview on San Francisco’s KCBS radio, just a few minutes of fact-checking would have prevented the debacle.