"hey spike, you seen the remote ?"
Posted on 12/29/2006 1:39:44 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Television networks face a killer of a conundrum with the impending execution of Saddam Hussein, whose hanging could be videotaped and perhaps aired on Iraqi TV.
The timing of Saddam's date with the gallows was unclear, but late Thursday CBS, NBC and Fox News Channel reported that the former dictator, convicted this year in the deaths of 148 people in 1982, would be turned over by the American military to the Iraqi government within 36 hours and hanged before the start of a Muslim holiday on Sunday.
Several sources said Saddam's execution would be videotaped by the Iraqi government, though it wasn't clear whether it would be released to the public or broadcast.
"We will video everything," Iraqi National Security adviser Mouffak al Rubaie told CBS News.
Judging by the Iraqi government's release Tuesday of videotape of the hanging of 13 convicts, it could be a gruesome affair. Meetings were held Thursday in at least two network headquarters over how to handle the potentially graphic images.
ABC and CBS said they wouldn't air the full execution if the video became available.
"We're very aware that we're coming into people's living rooms and that there could be children watching," CBS News senior vp Linda Mason said....."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.scotsman.com ...
Beer and popcorn for me! And hang in there, Saddam!
I hope "tasteful" means they only limit slo-mo replays of the hanging to once every five minutes for the first three days after he swings.
I take it Linda never played the notebook game "hangman" as a kid.
Nothing is quite as educational as a public hanging.
These are the same people who want to go easy on pedophiles.
"hey spike, you seen the remote ?"
ABC and CBS? Pfffft. As long as FOX shows it in full length I'm fine. It's going to be avaible on the internet anyway.
Everybody don't forget to save the video and put it on a disk. History not saved is lost!
Hey, didn't Mme. daFarge sit there with her knitting at the Place de l'Concorde watching the guillotinings during the French Revolution?
"Chop it off! Chop it off!"
ABC and CBS said they wouldn't air the full execution if the video became available.
"We're very aware that we're coming into people's living rooms and that there could be children watching," CBS News senior vp Linda Mason said....."
But they have no problem airing scenes of Americans being killed, burned, and dragged through the streets.
Then again, our “esteemed” MSM have more respect for Saddam than for American military and contractors.
The process of judicial hanging.
http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/hanging2.html
Analyses of physical effects of various kinds of hangings, causes of death, and so on.
WARNING: includes graphic descriptions and links to photos.
...my opinion on the posted news above this thread? The media companies have shown so many horrid indecencies, but they are averted to showing Saddam's execution? Hmmm.
Na na na na
Na na na na
Hey Hey Hey
Goodbye
They definitely need a laugh track.
The video will be on YouTube within minutes of the event.
At the turn of the 19th century, hangings at Newgate prison were observed by distinguished individuals, who shared the podium with the warden, who were served deviled kidney. Is that tasteful enough?
Laughable but predictable. They will show sexual encounters bordering on porn but this is too much reality for them?
In addition, it could have the unfortunate result of boosting GWB's poll numbers - can't have that!
The suddenly-scrupulous media will get scooped again as every site from Drudge on down will have the footage. CBS will probably be doing another Kwanzaa story to compete.
"Mason (CBS), Alongi (NBC) and Murphy (ABC) said Thursday that an execution video widely distributed on the Internet wouldn't change their minds about not airing the graphic portions of any video."
Thus continuing their slide into total irrelevancy.
I want to see it in High-Death, uh.. Hi-Def.
He should be forced to drink 32oz of water before the big show and be told that cameras will be focused at his waistline- so the whole world can see him piss his pants.
If it's on TV, I'll pass. I'll count on you guys to confirm it was him. The only one of those "death" videos I ever watched was Nick Berg and it freaked me out so bad I'll never watch anything like that again, if I can avoid it.
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