Fox News Just Showed A Guy Blowing His Brains Out...

[DToTheJ]

This despite Shepard Smith's multiple pleas to "get off it, get off it, get off it, GET OFF IT..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZttwwbM-AU

 

[landtuna]

Smith's pleas came after the fact and it wasn't clear the guy had a gun as the video was taken from a long way away.

 

[Mario500]

Here is a link to an article about the broadcast of the shooting and an apology from Shephard Smith about the broadcast.

 

[LKellerIII]

Smith's pleas came after the fact and it wasn't clear the guy had a gun as the video was taken from a long way away.

Exactly. I am NOT a fan of Fox News, though I do think Shep Smith is one of their more principled anchor-people. But it was just a mistake - somebody in the control room a half-second too slow on the cut button. That person will probably be reprimanded.

 

[Mario500]

Pardon me for misspelling Shepard Smith's first name in my previous post above.

 

[KeithE4]

This despite Shepard Smith's multiple pleas to "get off it, get off it, get off it, GET OFF IT..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZttwwbM-AU

Fox O&O KSAZ-TV/10 Phoenix had been covering the chase live during its noon newscast (it ended in Salome, about 70 miles west of Phoenix), but ended the coverage at the end of the broadcast. FNC picked up the feed and aired it live, including the shooting, which occurred at 12:31. It was supposed to have been aired on a delay.

Link: KSAZ-TV Phoenix

 

[justpassingthough]

I read on Gawker that the broadcast was delayed by 5 seconds and Shep Smith apologized, saying the 5 seconds wasn't enough time to pull away before the gunshot. Try making sense of that.

 

[ajc_trw]

Smith's pleas came after the fact and it wasn't clear the guy had a gun as the video was taken from a long way away.

My guess is the shot with Shepherd Smith was delayed five seconds while the other video was live. I believe FNC switched from the live chopper video to the delayed studio video. However that's my take given what I saw.

EDIT: Just checked the timing and five seconds after the trigger pull Shepherd Smith flinched.

 

[pab]

I read on Gawker that the broadcast was delayed by 5 seconds and Shep Smith apologized, saying the 5 seconds wasn't enough time to pull away before the gunshot. Try making sense of that.

Having been "on the button" at no less than four different radio stations over the years, let me tell you that seven seconds is an eternity. You're trained to hit the dump button as soon as something inappropriate is said.

I don't know what would prevent an operator at Fox from pressing a button within five seconds. Unless they need approval from someone else to do it, which would slow things down.

 

[recto101]

I remember back in 1998 KCAL9, KTLA5 and KTTV Fox 11 were named after their Newscopters were shown to air a guy on an LA area freeway committing Suicide. I know back then CNN, MSNBC, and Fox all covered that incident back when they were in their tabloid phase.

 

[arnoldevns]

This shouldn't have happened.. it was a mistake.. scenes like that change very quickly and sometimes it's hard to react quickly enough.

That said...

I have seen much more graphic things on primetime TV shows.

 

[EZway2go]

I remember back in 1998 KCAL9, KTLA5 and KTTV Fox 11 were named after their Newscopters were shown to air a guy on an LA area freeway committing Suicide. I know back then CNN, MSNBC, and Fox all covered that incident back when they were in their tabloid phase.

Also, does anyone remember that incident from the late '80s when a Pennsylvania state official (Bud Dwyer, I think) held a news conference and shot himself in the mouth? It seemed all the news outlets kept showing that clip over and over. I don't know how much time went by before it was deemed inappropriate for mass viewing.

That was around the same time as the Challenger explosion, maybe a couple years later. Something I always found even more disturbing to watch was the look on Christa McAuliffe's parent's faces just seconds after that explosion. There are some images on television forever embedded in our memories; that's certainly one I'll never forget.

 

[mjlarochelle]

I remember back in 1998 KCAL9, KTLA5 and KTTV Fox 11 were named after their Newscopters were shown to air a guy on an LA area freeway committing Suicide. I know back then CNN, MSNBC, and Fox all covered that incident back when they were in their tabloid phase.

Also, does anyone remember that incident from the late '80s when a Pennsylvania state official (Bud Dwyer, I think) held a news conference and shot himself in the mouth? It seemed all the news outlets kept showing that clip over and over. I don't know how much time went by before it was deemed inappropriate for mass viewing.

My first thought was Budd Dywer when I heard about this. This is the Budd Dwyer suicide of the social media generation.

 

[recto101]

Well what about 9/11 when all the New York Newscopters showed World Trade Center 2 get hit again live on the air I would think that was disturbing to 9/11 victims and families. Or Iraq War II or Afghanistan war I would think they would be deemed inappropriate for mass viewing but had to be aired to prove that the event was true.

 

[mjlarochelle]

My question: Who is responsible for screwing up the 10-second delay, FOX 10 Phoenix or FOX News Channel?

 

[landtuna]

My question: Who is responsible for screwing up the 10-second delay, FOX 10 Phoenix or FOX News Channel?

Fox10 discontinued showing video at the end of their news segment - before the shooting.

 

[mjlarochelle]

Well what about 9/11 when all the New York Newscopters showed World Trade Center 2 get hit again live on the air I would think that was disturbing to 9/11 victims and families. Or Iraq War II or Afghanistan war I would think they would be deemed inappropriate for mass viewing but had to be aired to prove that the event was true.

Definitely...although like the Challenger explosion, viewers did not see anyone physically die. It's a stretch, but TV coverage of major tornadoes or hurricanes would also qualify as being inappropriate for mass viewing under that criteria, as one doesn't know who could be dying just metres away from Anderson Cooper's report.

 

[recto101]

Well what about 9/11 when all the New York Newscopters showed World Trade Center 2 get hit again live on the air I would think that was disturbing to 9/11 victims and families. Or Iraq War II or Afghanistan war I would think they would be deemed inappropriate for mass viewing but had to be aired to prove that the event was true.

Definitely...although like the Challenger explosion, viewers did not see anyone physically die. It's a stretch, but TV coverage of major tornadoes or hurricanes would also qualify as being inappropriate for mass viewing under that criteria, as one doesn't know who could be dying just metres away from Anderson Cooper's report.

But Then again I watched CBS News and others Last Year and they showed the body of Gadhafi via web feed from Libya and protesters kicking his head. They had to be aired to be proven to be true.

 

[LowPayDJ]

Much to do about Nothing. The Guy put a Gun to his head. Bang, and He fell over. BIG DEAL!
He saved the Tax Payers a lot of Money and now we don't have to pay to house him in a cell for the next 20 to Life.
It's more Graphic on Breaking Bad or Sons of Anarchy, and no one Gives a S**t about that.

 

[upstate29651]

My first thought was Budd Dywer when I heard about this. This is the Budd Dwyer suicide of the social media generation.

Hardly. You know what happened because you could barely make out a gun. We knew what would happen when the gun was raised to his temple. We knew what happened when he fell over. But we didn't see blood, brains, hear a shot, a painful cry. Far from memorable.

This was quite sanitized, and FNC did a good job in taking responsibility for their technical glitch.

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