Then the issue is newsworthiness, not gore. Shep should be ashamed of covering car chases, not letting us see a suicide.
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?