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OMG i was just watching Fox News with Shepard Smith, Live and they were covering a car chase and the man ran out of the car in the middle of NO where in Arizona and the pulls a gun to his head and shot himself dead...LIVE on tv...
Fox news didnt get to pull the feed before the man did it, Shepard smith came back on and apologized but I have NEVER seen such a thing..I feel sick to my stomach to have been subjected to seeing a criminal commit suicide on Fox News. I normally dont watch Fox, but I wanted to see what they were saying about the elections and then I am subjected to this....#garbage
Welcome to the world of reality. Not what one would want to see everyday but it happens, Put on your bigboy pants and deal with it rationally, Geeez!
Oh, I have seen plenty of graphic things as well. There are literally dozens of websites devoted to it (with varying levels of taste and tact). I found an interesting site about the ballistics of firearms that was extremely dry and informative, but also had probably about two hundred photos of fatal gunshot wounds that ranged from small, nearly bloodless holes to giant craters leaking brains where a face used to be.
But two things:
1) Most people don't seek that type of thing out and would prefer not to wallow in it. In fact, there is a significant portion of the population that doesn't know what a severed human head looks like and they would prefer NOT to know.
2) It's not so much that it was bloody, but rather that it was "disturbing". You can watch medical shows during daytime that show surgery and other medical procedures in explicit detail, but it's not a big deal because nobody died, but most mainstream shows and networks won't show someone who died of a sleeping pill overdose or jumping off a bridge because although it might not be "graphic" it is "disturbing".
Yes, I agree with both points you make!!!
I was speaking more from my personal point of view.....I am pretty much desensitized to much of the graphic violence shown on tv due to it being very tame compared to internet gore......you know exactly what I am talking about.........headsaw.avi...yikes.
But I think Fox went overboard with the groveling...after accidently showing the suicide.
OMG i was just watching Fox News with Shepard Smith, Live and they were covering a car chase and the man ran out of the car in the middle of NO where in Arizona and the pulls a gun to his head and shot himself dead...LIVE on tv...
Fox news didnt get to pull the feed before the man did it, Shepard smith came back on and apologized but I have NEVER seen such a thing..I feel sick to my stomach to have been subjected to seeing a criminal commit suicide on Fox News. I normally dont watch Fox, but I wanted to see what they were saying about the elections and then I am subjected to this....#garbage
While living in San Diego about 14 years ago, I saw something similar. A man was being chased, got out of his car on a highway, shot his dog and then shot himself on live TV. I was shocked and horrified. There was very little mention of it afterwards, but I happened to be watching. I don't remember what channel but it was awful. I am certainly not a Fox News fan, but I am sure it wasn't intentional. Sorry that you had to witness something like that.
I was in junior high with this one. It was extremely graphic with lots of blood because he used a shotgun. They also stayed on the shot for a very long time after the fact. There was a lot of talk about it after the fact, though, and it is the reason why car chases are covered differently than they used to be (at least out here.)
A similar thing happened on a local news station here in LA a few years ago. It wasn't a Fox affiliate. The helicopter camera was zoomed in on the suspect and they captured the moment he committed suicide. Minor controversy and apologies all around. They didn't know it was going to happen.
[this could happen to any televised news station]
I will say that they should have known what was going to happen. At the moment he had the shotgun pointed at his chin, the news should have gone on to something else.
Does anyone know what started the pursuit of the man who shot himself?
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I feel sick to my stomach to have been subjected to seeing a criminal commit suicide on Fox News. I normally dont watch Fox, but I wanted to see what they were saying about the elections and then I am subjected to this....#garbage
