http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/06/30/bronx-lebanon-hospital-shooting/ A Mass shooting at a New York area Hospital is going wall to wall on the Local New York TV stations.
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What were you watching when.....?
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I remember two times i was watching NBC and a historic event happened.
the 9/11 attacks for sure, because the library had The Today Show on.
the other one was Baby Jessica; i was watching Rags to Riches(it was one of my favorite shows at that time) and they interrupted the show for that. I'm still mad at NBC News for that. They did the same thing with the last episode of Sale of the Century too! Then they did the same thing during the Classic Concentration tournament of champions final too.
the 9/11 attacks for sure, because the library had The Today Show on.
the other one was Baby Jessica; i was watching Rags to Riches(it was one of my favorite shows at that time) and they interrupted the show for that. I'm still mad at NBC News for that. They did the same thing with the last episode of Sale of the Century too! Then they did the same thing during the Classic Concentration tournament of champions final too.
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Yeah! They shouldn't mess with something as important as a game show for breaking news!
I recall that during the Watergate Hearings in the early 70s - gavel to gavel coverage - that soap opera lovers were furious that their soaps were off the air for the duration. Nowadays, we have 24/7 cable news, so I doubt that would happen again - the nets would leave it up to the cable news triplets. But important breaking news - that's different.
Going way way back, my grandmom was listening to the radio when John Daly(the same guy that did Whats My Line?) broke in to report that FDR had died. It would have been on CBS i think.
It was a different, more innocent time, and without 24/7 news, of course. And it was still war-time. People idolized FDR. Everybody knows his handicap was mostly hidden from view, but also covered up was the fact that he was very frail and barely able to function that last year or two of his life. So his death was a shock to the public. Really, others like Stimson (Secretary of War), and Hull (Secretary of State) were running the show, at least in FDR's last few months.
I still remember listening to NASA progress after liftoff, the explosion shortly thereafter, a bit of silence and there was not a breath or change in tone as in the middle of the statement of progress, "We have a report from ... the vehicle has exploded; the vehicle has exploded", which we already witnessed a few seconds earlier, and news reports were already reporting what we had just seen, although nobody but viewers were quite sure at first.
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http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/in-la-w...ons-diverge-on-parole-hearing-coverage/192328. OJ parole hearing. Well the comparisons to the 1995 verdict came into play in this article.
How did TV cover the suicide of Linkin Park's Chester Bennington's ??? The reason I asked is that our local radio stations and I assumed our TV ( though I do not watch them ) had crisis counselors standing by "just in case". I know on Facebook there were a lot of those "he spoke for me..now he is gone...I have no reason to live" crap. The reason I say "crap" is that many of these people have been posting for years and years and not once did they ever mentioned Chester Bennington or Linkin Park until now.
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Umm Wow that's a few days ago and this person mentioned in your post was never mentioned on the evening news. The coverage went to OJ Simpson Parole hearing and Trump/Putin Scandal. Well Linkin Park was big in Some parts of the country just not where I live though.
Apparently they are big in Colorado. I live within a few blocks of Crawford Media's 560 KLZ/Legends 810 and Max Media's Jammin 101.5 and FLO 107 plus Salem Media has offices nearby too and ALL of them had counselors on call at the station even though none of those stations played Linkin Park.
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Well in California I look at Sacramento, San Francisco and Los Angeles TV feeds on the day of one of the Linkin Park member death I got yes the Trump Scandal, The OJ Simpson parole hearing and wildfires near Yosemite as my top headlines. Probably we had to look at certain celeb sites like TMZ in other links though.
Well that is what you should be getting...NEWS !!!! A guy in a somewhat popular rock band with issues, severe issues deciding to hang himself sorry that's not news, The more I think of it celebrity deaths should only be reported by TMZ and the taboilds rather that CBS, NBC, FOX News, ABC or even CNN. Way too many people today can NOT handle celebrity deaths !! I know people who still can not get back to work because of the death of Carrie Fisher and that was late last year !!!
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True especially in the past decade where a lot of celebrity deaths tended to be cited by TMZ first before the Coroner and family confirms all of this.
I question the priorities of the major networks (the "big three") with regard to breaking into normal programming to cover O.J. Simpson. There are enough cable news channels, and enough websites streaming the coverage, that breaking into normal everyday network programming should have been unnecessary.
That said, here in Nashville, it was noon when the "breaking news" of O.J. happened, and channel 4 incorporated it into their normal noon newscast. However, they in turn, broke into NBC news' network coverage to cover the verdicts in the Timothy Batts trial. (Not newsworthy nationwide, but certainly newsworthy here.) However, at 12:30, following the conclusion of the local news, they returned to NBC coverage of O.J.
Regarding the reporting of rock star deaths, Lennon's death is in a special category--not only because he was a Beatle, but the fact that he was murdered, as opposed to just OD-ing or otherwise killing himself. As far as the two Star Wars fans/clowns, they should REALLY consider getting some serious help.
Well Last Month we had 2 unrelated mass shootings in different parts of the country at the same time. One was the congressional Mass Shooting in Virginia where comparisons of Gabby Giffords shooting came into play.
and the UPS Shooting in San Francisco for completely unrelated reasons. However in the San Francisco Area the network coverage of the Congressional shooting was pre-empted for local news because of the local mass shooting. Note the UPS shootings was not emphasized outside of San Francisco due to uncertainties over US House Member Steve Scalise's status and other victims of the mass shooting.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/victims-san-francisco-ups-shooting-targeted-police/story?id=48246052
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/14/politics/alexandria-virginia-shooting/index.html
Thats the thing about rock star deaths. It's always about OD'ing or AIDS even if a celebrity died from something else. David Bowie for example a lot of people believe died from AIDS even though he died from cancer. It's a lot like those so-called child stars, It's always suicide and a statement from Paul Petersen ( Donna Reed & A Minor Consideration ) saying whatever. Leslie Gore had cancer I believe but many of those out these believe the woman killed herself because her "singing days" is in the toilet, I was working the night Rusty Hamer from "Make Room for Daddy" killed himself. Before the internet they didn't show recent pics of those child stars. 15 years after his death I stumbled online a pic of a man in torn blue jeans , very overweight, bald head, ZZ Top style beard and a cigar in his mouth. Found out THAT was Rusty Hamer !!!
Somebody wrote an expose about the Danny Thomas set, and the troubles there - I think it was Jean Hagen, who played Danny's wife first - before Marjorie Lord. Whoever it was indicated that Hamer was an obnoxiously, spoiled, entitled brat - and very difficult to work with. I suspect he had greedy handlers (his parents perhaps) who were responsible for his behavior. It's not surprising his career cratered after MRFD.
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