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TV plans tasteful coverage of Saddam execution
Scotsman ^ | 29-Dec-06 | Paul J. Gough

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; saddam; saddamshanging
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Tasteful....and we will have little cakes and tea.

Beer and popcorn for me! And hang in there, Saddam!

1 posted on 12/29/2006 1:39:47 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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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.


2 posted on 12/29/2006 1:41:39 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Immigration is to Illegal Immigration what Birth is to Abortion.)
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"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....."

I take it Linda never played the notebook game "hangman" as a kid.

3 posted on 12/29/2006 1:43:39 AM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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"...and that there could be children watching.."

Nothing is quite as educational as a public hanging.

4 posted on 12/29/2006 1:44:23 AM PST by Bonaparte
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We're very aware that we're coming into people's living rooms and that there could be children watching...

These are the same people who want to go easy on pedophiles.

5 posted on 12/29/2006 1:55:08 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Anti-Bubba182

"hey spike, you seen the remote ?"

6 posted on 12/29/2006 2:00:51 AM PST by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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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!


7 posted on 12/29/2006 2:58:29 AM PST by SolidWood (Sadr lives. Kill him.)
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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!"


8 posted on 12/29/2006 3:10:22 AM PST by Clifford The Big Red Dog (Woof!)
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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.

9 posted on 12/29/2006 3:21:32 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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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.


10 posted on 12/29/2006 3:29:47 AM PST by familyop (Essayons)
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Na na na na

Na na na na

Hey Hey Hey

Goodbye


11 posted on 12/29/2006 3:59:27 AM PST by FreedomGuru (Join the dark side young Jedi, we have cookies!)
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They definitely need a laugh track.


12 posted on 12/29/2006 4:04:09 AM PST by MadJack ("Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." (Afghan proverb))
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The video will be on YouTube within minutes of the event.


13 posted on 12/29/2006 4:18:10 AM PST by Fresh Wind (All we are sa-a-a-ying, is give Beast a chance.)
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"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....."

Lady, get a clue. The networks beam all kinds of nonsense into "people's living rooms", why the pangs of conscience all of a sudden? Lets turn this into a Learning Moment for the kiddies, some Quality Time. /s
14 posted on 12/29/2006 4:27:06 AM PST by Freedom4US (u)
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"there could be children watching," CBS News senior vp Linda Mason said"

It never has stopped them from airing all the trash they regularly have served up in the past.
15 posted on 12/29/2006 5:08:14 AM PST by Ninian Dryhope ("Bush lied, people dyed. Their fingers." The inestimable Mark Steyn)
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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?


16 posted on 12/29/2006 5:10:41 AM PST by Daveinyork
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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....."

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.

17 posted on 12/29/2006 5:19:27 AM PST by relictele
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"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.


18 posted on 12/29/2006 5:20:43 AM PST by John W
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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.


19 posted on 12/29/2006 5:27:09 AM PST by Made In The USA (Bacon is infidelicious)
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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.


20 posted on 12/29/2006 5:34:18 AM PST by joebuck
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