Posted on 09/28/2012 12:58:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A man committed suicide live on Fox News a few minutes ago. FNC had been carrying a car chase in the Phoenix area and when the suspect pulled over, he ran down a dirt road, then stopped, put a gun to his head, and fell to the ground. You could hear Studio B crewmembers, who were watching a live feed of what was happening, gasp and Smith say, “Get off, get off, get off,” asking the control room to cut away. But they didn’t in time.
Fox then went to a commercial break. Upon returning, Smith said, “Well I’ve got some explaining to do.”
Smith explained that after the suspect excited the car, the network went into a five second delay, but that they failed to cut away.
“We really messed up, and we are all really sorry. That didn’t belong on TV. I personally apologize to you that that happened,” Smith added “That will not happen again on my watch, and I am sorry.”
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Why is this a problem?
Stuff happens.
This has happened before: once was that horrible live suicide of a Pennsylvania state senator in the late 1980s, then in the 1990s a suicide in California after a car chase was broadcast at 3:00 pm...pre empting children’s cartoons.
Yeah, watched that. Somebody didn’t have their hand close enough to the big red button, apparently.
Someone will post it on liveleak, shortly.
Shepard loves car chases ,he would rather watch a car chase than vote for Obama . I saw that ,the guy put the gun to his head then fell forward ,no blood or gore
I was watching for a few minutes, then went to the bathroom and didn’t see the guy shoot himself, which is good. My daughter’s boyfriend is here and he told me what happened. He was watching when it happened. Just wow. Sorry for his family.
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Not sure why.....
What exactly did Shep expect to happen? For him to get out of the car and play tiddlywinks? Shep is responsible for this, and should man up and resign immediately.
5 seconds is an eternity in professional media! I’m gonna sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I’m starting to feel that the media is trying to numb us to violence. They’re going to numb us to the point that when government storm troopers are shown on TV killing innocent civilians, it’s not considering abnormal.
You live by car chases. You die by car chases.
I watched it several times from a looping DVR feed, there was no 5 sec. delay, the cut away was from the suspect falling forward after shooting himself in the head, to 5 seconds of Shep going nuts to “cut it off”.
Did Shep cry?
Did his mascara run?........Fox wusses..........
Already posted on youtube
It seems the 5-second delay wasn’t working. The camera had already stayed on the guy several seconds and I had already thrown my hands up before Shep was yelling to back off. I didn’t want to see it and glad I didn’t.
It is? I can’t find it.
OK, watched it live. Dude was obviously a gangster (note screen name, I know them when I see them) who had carjacked someone, shot at police, and gone on a 110 mph chase swerving through traffic. He also appeared to be stoned out of his mind as he struggled to get out of the vehichle, adjusted his backpack, and casually began to walk off not thinking the police were still coming, then began running wildly, flailing and falling on his face (although that could have been due to his “sagging” pants, again further gangster evidence”. This was a bad guy.
A much better headline would be “Foxnews shows human debris saving taxpayers several hundered thousand dollars in court and incarceration charges live on TV”
Reality. Its harsh sometimes. Fox probably should have cut away (it appeared they were trying but the delay was messed up), but honestly, its not the worst thing that could have happened.
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Okay Shep, what else don't you let us see. The problem with censorship is that others make the choice for the viewer.
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