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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkGph...ctr=1348935429

During the afternoon broadcast, Fox News was covering a low-speed chase in Phoenix, Ariz., and cut to live footage of the suspect getting out of his vehicle and running erratically through a field. The cameras continued rolling, giving viewers a clear aerial view of the man eventually stopping, pulling a gun from his pocket, appearing to shoot himself in the head and falling over. As soon as the man appears to reach for the gun, Smith can be heard repeating insistently, "Get off it, get off it, get off it!" but the producers didn't cut in time — only switching back to Smith after the man was on the ground. After a brief break, Smith explained to viewers that the production team had anticipated that something might go awry and had tried to prevent the footage from being broadcast. "We created a five-second delay as if you were to bleep back your DVR five seconds ... so that we would see in the studio five seconds before you did," Smith explained. "So that if anything went horribly wrong, we'd be able to cut away from it without subjecting you to it. And we really messed up. And we're all very sorry. That didn't belong on TV. We took every precaution we knew how to take to keep that from being on TV, and I personally apologize to you that that happened."

I was expecting a story about the New Orleans Saints' season.

5-second delay fail. I guess human error but damn you would expect somebody on the button especially when you're broadcasting something as unpredictable as a car chase.

I can only imagine the producer getting his ass chewed out for about an hour after that.

Awful that they ed that up. Props to the anchor for apologizing for it profusely when it was someone else's up though.

If you play with fire....

Geddit off!

The bigger news is that they actually apologized for something.

I can't believe how easy it was for that guy to pull the trigger. Why was he running in the first place?

this is somewhat of a personal question, as in one that you have to ask yourself, but did anyone feel anything from watching that?

i certainly didn't feel any different about that than whatever other bullshit is usually on the news. is it really so bad that they showed it?

Originally Posted by crystalklear64 this is somewhat of a personal question, as in one that you have to ask yourself, but did anyone feel anything from watching that? i certainly didn't feel any different about that than whatever other bullshit is usually on the news. is it really so bad that they showed it?

Yeah, it's not anywhere near as graphic as they make it sound.

Originally Posted by Access_Denied I can't believe how easy it was for that guy to pull the trigger. Why was he running in the first place?

Probably been in prison before and there was no way he was going back.

Originally Posted by bobo2k4 Probably been in prison before and there was no way he was going back.

Well thank god he saved tax payers some money.

Originally Posted by detectiveconan16 the bigger news is that they actually apologized for something.

Loaded Weapon comes to mind at times like this: "This loser has taken the chicken shit way out and punched his own ticket."

They used to sell videos of this stuff.

Can't blame the news, these days we have this media overload deal going on. Every piece of information live 24/7.

Good thing he didn't do it in the car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w51antOCtM0

Why is Shep Smith the only decent person at Fox News?

The Fox Violence Channel from Idiocracy is coming to life.

Like Shep said, he was probably on something or either seriously mentally disturbed.