30-11-2022, 04:29 PM
(30-11-2022, 12:04 PM)W. Knight Wrote: Back in 2011: ATV News in Hong Kong first broke the news of former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin's death. 11 years too early, to be exact:
Fastforwarding into late night, they even got to the lengths of changing their DOG into an obituary black symbol, albeit only thoughout the news:
Later investigations found the higher-ups pressed the news department to air the report ASAP, as well as changing the symbol. The vice-chiefs, failed to stop the press, resigned; while the station was fined $300 thousand HKD.
One of the anchors iirc now heads iCable's news division in a clear sign of how iCable has taken a turn for the worse.
One of the vice-chiefs that resigned later headed RTHK (which was considered back then as bad enough), yet now is regarded as having been pretty okay compared to what has followed since.