Painful local news fail happens at the worst possible time

A bad time for a bad slip-up.
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Marcus Gilmer
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Painful local news fail happens at the worst possible time
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Being a newscaster is high pressure, reading the news live every day and knowing that if you slip up it'll be there for the internet to see.

And that's exactly what happened to Brianna Clark, an anchor on Kentucky's WPSD, who badly mangled the name of Deidre Mengedoht, a Louisville police officer who was killed in a Christmas Eve car crash.

Where her very off-the-mark pronunciation came from is a mystery -- a painful, cringe-inducing mystery. But it's very unfortunate timing.

The Louisville Police Department has launched a fundraiser to benefit Officer Mengedoht's 9-year-old son here.

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Marcus Gilmer

Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.


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