{"id":76692,"date":"2020-11-21T13:31:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T19:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=76692"},"modified":"2020-11-21T13:31:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T19:31:49","slug":"the-wonderful-disaster-of-waterloo-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2020\/11\/21\/the-wonderful-disaster-of-waterloo-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"The wonderful disaster of Waterloo, Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">On October 5, 1978, a KJHK staffer was bored, so they decided to write up a fake story about a nuclear reactor explosion in Waterloo, Iowa. They then handed it to the news editor, at the time, as a joke then threw it away around 3:30 p.m. Later, a different newscaster saw the paper in the trash. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">They thought<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0it was authentic, but\u00a0they didn\u2019t verify if it was true.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559731&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">So, on the 4:50 p.m. newscast was read on air. Then several other stations picked up the story. The next day the FCC came to KJHK to figure out what happened.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">They cleared the news story.\u00a0They fired the staffers involved and they were cleared of their classes for the rest of the semester.\u00a0The FCC ended up giving KJHK a slap on the wrist and telling them to not do it again. Bruce Linton, the journalism school faculty advisor <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">at the time was not having any of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Today we\u2019re doing amazing. We haven\u2019t written a fake news story since.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559731&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Tale of Waterloo, Iowa\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sX2yGnDvlUM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>*Correction in video narration: Max Utsler was not the general manager at the time, rather Bruce Linton served as the faculty advisor from the School of Journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 5, 1978, a KJHK staffer was bored, so they decided to write up a fake story about a nuclear reactor explosion in Waterloo, Iowa. They then handed it to the news editor, at the time, as a joke then threw it away around 3:30 p.m. Later, a different newscaster saw the paper in the trash. They thought\u00a0it was authentic, but\u00a0they didn\u2019t verify if it was true.\u00a0\u00a0 So, on the 4:50 p.m. newscast was read on air. Then several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21361,"featured_media":76695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3226,15,3231],"tags":[8606,8607,8608,8605],"class_list":["post-76692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-culture-articles","category-featured-on-kjhk","category-multimedia","tag-fcc","tag-kjhk-history","tag-newscast","tag-waterloo-iowa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Waterloo-Thumbnail.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76696,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76692\/revisions\/76696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}