>  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 
ver
 >  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.
Now days they just bleep out the bad words on the replay. If it's live,
you get the raw sewage. In this instance, the newsman was only interested
in sensationalism.
Regards,
Jack
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