This one is still confounding me… should media, old or new, be whoring for the FBI? For example, broadcasting the demands of a cop killer jonesin’ to get on TV, as much of Georgia media did recently?
Doug Richards of WXIA and blogger at Live Apartment Fire has the post-mort boast-review of how it all went down here. Please read that first for critical background before answering the ‘ho question. Excerpt:
This guy won’t turn himself in unless he does it live on TV, because he’s afraid our guys will shoot him when he comes out of the house. I need a TV crew to set up in front of the house, and feed a live picture to the other stations.
Immediately and emphatically, I said: We’ll do it, Vernon.
I woke-up today with a firm no they should not on the matter. That could change by afternoon though. I know if I’d have been chosen to broadcast a cop killer… well, I’m a total weanie, and I wouldn’t have been anywhere near a scene like that to begin with, having had the thrill-crap scared out of me long long ago when working in TV journalism. So there. But…
What do you think?
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SpaceyG,
I have no faith that the Blue Brotherhood would have allowed Hood to see the inside of a jail cell if there hadn’t been live TV broadcasting the takedown. He would have seen the inside of a bodybag.
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Yeah, would have saved us from all the preening TV media types crowing about sticking a camera outside an apartment… for the FBI.
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