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Fox News Airs Suicide Following Car Chase. Shep Smith: ‘We really messed up.. and I am sorry’
TV Newser ^ | Sept. 28, 2012 | Alex Weprin

Posted on 09/28/2012 12:58:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

A man committed suicide live on Fox News a few minutes ago. FNC had been carrying a car chase in the Phoenix area and when the suspect pulled over, he ran down a dirt road, then stopped, put a gun to his head, and fell to the ground. You could hear Studio B crewmembers, who were watching a live feed of what was happening, gasp and Smith say, “Get off, get off, get off,” asking the control room to cut away. But they didn’t in time.

Fox then went to a commercial break. Upon returning, Smith said, “Well I’ve got some explaining to do.”

Smith explained that after the suspect excited the car, the network went into a five second delay, but that they failed to cut away.

“We really messed up, and we are all really sorry. That didn’t belong on TV. I personally apologize to you that that happened,” Smith added “That will not happen again on my watch, and I am sorry.”

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To: Tublecane

Wait a minute now. Pop culture is obsessed with “gangsta” culture. It loves showing rappers who glorify gang life, thug life, etc...along with “harmless” drug use (chronic anybody?).

More importantly, it portrays this lifestyle as acceptable to minority yutes (YOUTHS, MR. Gambini!) and portrays as racists anyone who dares suggest that the hip hop gangsta street culture is rotten.

So why be SO upset about showing kids where this lifestyle leads? I mean, this guy shot himself, but a bullet really is how many gang members end up. If we can show gang members being badasses on everything from History Channel to MTV, I really dont see the problem when a dose of reality slips through the editing room and we end up getting a dose of where this lifestyle leads.

Not meaning to unload on you personally, but I’m really sensative to this subject because I grew up around it. Saw how many kids from Elementary school thought it a great idea to die for a neighborhood or a gang name. Maybe a graphic portrayal of how gangs and carjacking can really end is a good thing, in a educational sense.

As for car chases in general, I dont see why its any less newsworthy than what Mary Kate and Ashley had for breakfast or what Lindsay Lohan shoves up her nose....why cant people who dont like it simply change the channel?


101 posted on 09/28/2012 2:43:54 PM PDT by SoCalTransplant (Honey badger's level of concern is negligible.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

With all the gore posted out there. Why is this any different?
Just another day in 0bama land.


102 posted on 09/28/2012 2:52:31 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer. FREEDOM OR FREE STUFF- YOU GET ONE CHOICE, CHOOSE WISELY)
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To: trailhkr1

Been removed...TOO SHOCKING! OMG!


103 posted on 09/28/2012 2:55:15 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer. FREEDOM OR FREE STUFF- YOU GET ONE CHOICE, CHOOSE WISELY)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So this is why Fox News and Shep Smith were trending on google+. I decided to look here first because I assumed that it would be about bashing conservatives.


104 posted on 09/28/2012 2:56:14 PM PDT by ari-freedom
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To: SoCalTransplant

“Reality. Its harsh sometimes. Fox probably should have cut away (it appeared they were trying but the delay was messed up), but honestly, its not the worst thing that could have happened.”

Unless kids were watching. hmmm


105 posted on 09/28/2012 2:58:18 PM PDT by ari-freedom
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To: Truth29

Sheep had no problem reporting rumor and innuendo during hurricane Katrina. The cold room full of dead bodies, the roving gangs killing randomly all the gory lies that he could spew but this that he couldn’t spin is just not right.


106 posted on 09/28/2012 3:07:40 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Ignorance is bliss- I'm stoked)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It’s kind of funny that Fox says “WE screwed up,” “I’m Sorry.”

When a lib media outlet or even any lib is at fault you hear “mistakes were made,” “the event was regretable,” and/or “all blame lies fully on Bush/TEA Party/Conservative Christians.”


107 posted on 09/28/2012 3:49:19 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (If there is a war on women, the Kennedys are the Spec Ops troops.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It’s very sad to see someone throw their life away, literally I might add. I can only offer prayers for his loved ones. To have the suicide of your loved on tape for the nation to see is a horrible thing.


108 posted on 09/28/2012 3:49:42 PM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: mrsmel

It used to be that around age 8-10, young men were brought out into the woods to hunt or out to the shores to fish. They learned the value of a life insomuch as death should be purposeful. Kill a deer for its meat to stay fed and its hide for warmth or fashion. Take a fish for its meat or let it go to catch it again when it’s bigger.

Nowadays everything’s digital. Why fish when you can watch some guy do it on Saturday morning TV? Why hunt when Ted Nugent will do it for your on the Outdoor Life Network? Why dirty your hands fixing your car or your home?

We’ve become observers instead of actors. Those who act, in real life or cinema, entertain and are thus simply fodder for always-on TV.

Remember back in the day when TV actually stopped around 10 or 11 PM? I remember as a kid waking up at 4 in the morning, turning on the TV and seeing static or just some stock station screen. Nowadays, TVs always on, restaurants are 24/7, Internet is always there. We’ve become a culture immune to everything REAL in the world. Death is just something we see on TV.


109 posted on 09/28/2012 3:56:34 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: sodpoodle

Oh PLEASE....this was news.....they didn;tdo a CLOSE-UP.....geesh.....did he have another person in the car??


110 posted on 09/28/2012 3:59:21 PM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: sodpoodle

Oh PLEASE....this was news.....they didn;tdo a CLOSE-UP.....geesh.....did he have another person in the car??


111 posted on 09/28/2012 3:59:24 PM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

He did not and he didn’t wreck the car. He was running from personal demons. I watched this event as I am familiar with the Salome Hwy and wondered what guided him to where he was. The sad part was seeing him take his life and other copy-cats thinking a car chase is the way to get attention before checking out. He was looking about when he got out of the car as if there were spirits waiting on him. Satan took him down through his own power.


112 posted on 09/28/2012 4:08:39 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: trailhkr1

wow, I didn’t even have to watch the whole clip. They should have pulled it much sooner. Obviously something bad was coming.


113 posted on 09/28/2012 5:38:26 PM PDT by Laura722
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To: ari-freedom

Yeah, unless the kids are kids who think that it might be cool to be a thug and commit crime...who are exactly the people the rap/hip hop culture targets.

I’m just saying it provides some balance for the “I jacked him with my homies” kind of message that gets preached every day. Graphic, yes...but its kind of like those time lapse pictures of meth addicts who started out just wanting to have a good time and end up as the walking dead. The kids get the “thug life” message preached to them pretty early, so I’m just saying its not the worst thing to see the consequences of the lifestyle.


114 posted on 09/28/2012 6:38:36 PM PDT by SoCalTransplant (Honey badger's level of concern is negligible.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
That was nothing compared to to this one: Motorcyclist leads high speed chase; City bus ends it.

I watched this one live when it happened in Los Angeles back in the 90s. If I remember correctly, the guy was on the 405 somewhere down by the airport/Inglewood area. It was pretty disturbing. The crash actually ripped the guy's clothes off.

115 posted on 09/28/2012 9:14:01 PM PDT by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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To: ponygirl

What’s even more amazing is that the guy survived..that was a pretty powerful impact, I thought he would be dead for sure.


116 posted on 09/28/2012 9:17:45 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I know! That video cuts off the end, but the guy actually tried to get up and two cops ended up throwing him down on the ground and handcuffing him. I was watching, going, “Dude, that guy just got hit by a BUS - I don’t think he’s going very far.”


117 posted on 09/28/2012 9:22:54 PM PDT by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I tried to post this earlier and couldn’t.

Maybe Free Republic was messed up.

I think it would be a kind gesture if Fox would offer to pay for the man’s funeral, but I don’t know how to get in touch with them to suggest it.

I saw it live.

It wasn’t gory... but it was ... bad to see because you realized that you just saw a man’s death.


118 posted on 09/28/2012 9:34:43 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: eyedigress

It *was* weird and that’s why I am uneasy about people assuming he was “human debris” or a gang banger.

What if we find out he was a soldier with mental issues?


119 posted on 09/28/2012 9:49:28 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: Winstons Julia

I never said anything of the sort.


120 posted on 09/29/2012 9:06:15 AM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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