On 05-11-98 Jack Sargeant wrote to Maureen Goldman... 
 
 JS> Not even the v-chip would have prevented THIS from happening... A 
 JS> local TV station breaks into the afternoon cartoon show for the 
 JS> kiddies 
 JS> to show a man being chased by police, leaving his truck, taking his 
 JS> rifle over to the guard rail, and then blowing his brains out all over 
 JS> the white concrete. 
 
 JS> This happened last week. Later, the TV station manager said, 
 JS> "I'm in the business of showing the news, not censoring it!" 
 JS> There's a guy I would enjoy ringing the neck of. ...Off camera, 
 JS> of course. 
 
 I've read quite a few newsgroup comments about this, and I saw 
 some of the footage, of him getting out of his burning truck and 
 putting the gun under his chin (they said beforehand that the 
 shooting itself wouldn't be shown, and it wasn't). 
 
 I thought that there was supposed to be a few-second delay that 
 would stop that sort of thing from being broadcast.  Or perhaps 
 the delay was only aimed toward keeping certain words off the 
 air, and this was visual. 
 
 From what I've read, several stations re-showed the shooting a 
 number of times as part of later news broadcasts. 
 
 The odd thing about it is that I imagine the story was only 
 newsworthy because freeway traffic was being stopped. 
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