Posted on 08/11/2009 6:06:25 PM PDT by Loyalist
SAO PAULO, Brazil In one murder after another, the "Canal Livre" crime TV show had an uncanny knack for being first on the scene, gathering graphic footage of the victim.
Too uncanny, say police, who are investigating the show's host, state legislator Wallace Souza, on suspicion of commissioning at least five of the murders to boost his ratings and prove his claim that Brazil's Amazon region is awash in violent crime. Police also have accused Souza of drug trafficking.
"The order to execute always came from the legislator and his son, who then alerted the TV crews to get to the scene before the police," state police intelligence chief Thomaz Vasconcelos charged in an interview with The Associated Press.
The killings of competing drug traffickers, he said, "appear to have been committed to get rid of his rivals and increase the audience of the TV show."
Souza denied all the criminal allegations and called them absurd, insisting that he and his son are being set up by political enemies and drug dealers sick of his two decades of relentless crime coverage on TV and crusading legislative probes.
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Ummm, NBC had the exploding gas tanks.
Let him go - he’s on a roll
Soon to be a visiting lecturer at the Columbia School of Broadcasting.
Maybe Geraldo Rivera ought to do down and pick up some pointers from this guy?
Wait till Lt. Columbo shows up.
Apparently, competition is stiff.
Stop it, you’re killing me...
Didn’t Telemundo already air “snuff” news? I seem to recall some program in the 1990s that was interviewing some woman who was getting a divorce or something and I think she was visiting an ex’s grave and her husband came up behind her on camera and shot her dead.
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