Posted on 08/27/2006 6:23:17 PM PDT by SLB
LEX 18 News ended an evening recap of yesterday’s coverage of the Comair Flight 5191 crash for the live broadcast of the prime-time Emmy Awards. The annual TV awards show opened with shots of host Conan O’Brien bouncing inside a plane before it crashed on an island in a spoof of ABC’s hit show Lost.
WLEX’s president and general manager, Tim Gilbert, who was home watching the telecast with his family, was “stunned” by the intro; if station managers had known about the intro before the broadcast, Lexington viewers wouldn’t have seen it, he said.
“It was a live telecast — we were completely helpless,” Gilbert said of the Emmys. “By the time we began to react, it was over. At the station, we were as horrified as they were at home.”
Gilbert said he’ll complain to NBC, but he said an apology won’t make up for insensitivity.
“They could have killed the opening and it wouldn't have hurt the show at all,” Gilbert said. “We wish somebody had thought this through. It’s somewhere between ignorance and incompetence.”
Don't have a cow. It was a freaking coincidence.
Unbelievable. 99.9% of the country didn't make the connection between the intro and yesterday's plane crash until this story created it. Another person who says "I didn't like it, it offended ME so it shouldn't have aired"- ridiculous.
While I hate to find myself in the position of defending the hollywood crowd, they weren't making fun of yesterday's crash; they were spoofing the hit tv show "Lost" which was one of the most successful shows on tv last season (and the whole premise of the show deals with the survivors of a plane crash). They are not trying to make humor out of human tragedy at all.
I watched wall to wall coverage yesterday of the plane crash and my heart goes out to all the people and families involved. It was truly a tragedy.
By the same token, I watched the Emmy's last night and never once, not once, made the connection to the crash in Kentucky. The world is a big place, people die in different locales and for different reasons, the plane crash was an accident, not a terrorist attack. I am not a callous person but that skit was funny. Conan dropped in on different shows' sets, trying to find a way to get to the Emmy's. Does this mean that any movie in a theater with a plane crash should suspend showing, and for how long? Life goes on.
I would also like to say how happy I am for my favorite show's cast and crew of "24" for finally winning 5 Emmy's after 5 seasons.
Hollywood would only cared if someone from there was aboard and died......
Jack Bauer wasn't offended by it.
:-)
If my family members had died earlier that day, I sincerely doubt I would be watching the Emmy Awards that night. So the question is moot.
" I imagine Red Skelton, Jack Benny and others are all rolling in their graves."
I bet if you walk past any of their graves, you're going to hear a loud, shrill, whining roar, because these folks must be spinning at about 100,000 RPM. "Entertainment", indeed.
Alan Alda gives me the heebie geebies.
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Agreed!
Jack Bauer doesn't have TIME to suffer the nattering naybobs of negativity!
What amazed me about the Emmy Awards was that they were not broadcast in HD. Really disappointing. But it was nice to see "24" finally score.
I don't have a problem with it. I'm sure it was planned months in advance. It wasn't like they decided to exploit the afternoons tragedy.
Yeah, I guess NBC figured none of their shows weren't worth spotlighting so why bother with HD to promote shows on the other networks.
Why don't we cancel all crime dramas because the families of murder victims might be watching? Lets get rid of hospital shows because people might have sick relatives. And lets cancel basketball games because the family of Reggie Lewis might be watching. Lets get rid of South Park because it is offensive torwards all kinds of groups. The list goes on and on and on.
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