Dropping the F-Bomb live on Local TV

[MusicFan2009]

I'm surprised this wasn't picked up by others and I'm sad to say I missed all the incidents unfortunately.

Sarah Acevedo and producer filed a report about a woman in jail describing how she murdered man and drops the f-word several times in the tape feed, they immediately cut to Sarah and she apologized, fired the same day.

It also happened to a producer at KPHO who was mad about a teleprompter not functioning properly and Catherine Anaya apologized for the producer who was fired a week later.

It happened at Channel 12 but apparently went unnoticed by management.

Come on guys, this is real news, we all slacking a little bit? LOL

Here is the article thanks to the Examiner.

http://www.examiner.com/x-9938-Phoe...y2009m11d20-F-stands-for-Fired-at-Five--Fox10

The best thing is you can see the Sarah Acevedo story. Oh well she was a good reporter, shit happens right?

Again I'm really sorry I missed the incidents at KPHO and KPNX. Oh well.

I've been wondering why I've been seeing Laura Sambell so much more on FOX10.

 

[dhett]

Oh well she was a good reporter, s--- happens right?

Right. You're fired.

 

[TVWorldwide]

Wow, what an overreaction. It's not like Acevedo used the word herself; she merely included a soundbite of someone else using it in a report. Should there have been a warning beforehand? Sure. But this is the news. Those offended that their children heard the word should remember two simple words: parental responsibility.

Television news is not aimed at children. Newscasts tend to be filled with descriptions of violence and depravity (just consider the story Acevedo was covering!), which really can affect children in a negative way, so this exclusive focus on mere words -- an obsession that belongs more to the 1950s than the 21st century -- strikes me as somewhat hypocritical.

 

[tdfstamp]

TVW, I agree with you. I've got to believe she got axed because she must have been ultimately responsible for reviewing the video before it aired, and seeing that the profanity was filtered (Of course, no one meant for it to air that way...whose job is that, to screen the video and plug in the bleeps?).

Your second paragraph is spot on. TV news is ugly, especially local TV news. The world's not going to clean itself up for our kids. Parents gotta be parents.

 

[landtuna]

Personally (and as a parent), I'd be much more concerned that TV 'news' would dumb down my kids than they hear the very occasional word on TV they undoubtedly hear several times per day at school.

 

[w9wi]

TVW, I agree with you. I've got to believe she got axed because she must have been ultimately responsible for reviewing the video before it aired, and seeing that the profanity was filtered (Of course, no one meant for it to air that way...whose job is that, to screen the video and plug in the bleeps?).

It would certainly seem the editor should have reviewed the story before sending it down to air.

However, for a variety of reasons*, sometimes that simply doesn't happen.

We (in Nashville) have on a couple of occasions found edits we can see in the edit bay don't make it to air. Luckily, at our station the missing edits have never included the bleeps. We're not entirely sure why it happened. (my suspicion is the producer inadvertently changed the media ID)

* fault of the reporter: doesn't provide enough information to edit the story until too close to airtime
fault of the producer: moves the story up in the rundown, denying the editor time to properly review
fault of the equipment or engineering: editing gear crashes, denying review time
fault of the assignment editor: story editor is pulled off the story in question & redirected to edit something else
and yes, sometimes it's the fault of the editor themselves.

 

[tmartin993]

Too bad about Sarah i really liked her,it was a mistake maybe a suspicion would have been enough guess they are looking for ways to cut people,what i find funny more than a couple of years ago fox news had an anchor who slip while doing a sound bite on Jennifer Lopez,saying something not so nice about her but he wasn't fired.But then again its j lo who cares.