By Jack Rosenberg
I've had enough of TV and the levels at which they are stooping to garner ratings!
I will not use the Olympian's name (you know who he is by now), but I have to get this off my chest because this is the second time in the last three weeks I have witnessed a human being die on the news and today's Olympic tragedy makes me sick to my stomach!
Reporting this man's death is news albeit tragic, but still news, I will grant the TV stations that, but televising a person die on TV is not news, it's GOON TV!
I originally witnessed this on NBC and thought to myself, surly Canadian TV has more class then to show this...but nope, I was wrong, there it was on CTV.
And if showing the man die is not bad enough, they have to show it over, and over and over again. Plus we need to see it in slow motion and from three different angles too.
I am embarrassed for you CTV and your complete lack of common sense.
This poor guy has a family, a mother, a father somewhere watching this. How would you feel if this happened to your family Mr.Cameraman?
Has TV sunk so low that TV exec's feel they have to get this tragedy on the air before the next station? Or are we the public viewing audience asking for this type of coverage?
If it's the latter than let's get the TV cameras on Death Row and set up Pay-Per-View events on HBO!
The cameraman is not the only idiot responsible, the Producers and/or Editors are the one that give the thumbs up to go to air; so it's a comedy of errors and poor judgment.
I can understand things are going to happen on "Live" TV but there's no reason to re-broadcast this.
I know some people may say just, "Turn the station." True, I could do that, but that's not my point, a human being's last moments has no place on TV period. If you need to see this type of exposure than you should go rent Faces of Death!
The first person I witnessed die on TV three weeks ago was the Haitian man shot to death by the police as he picked up a bag of rice that fell from a passing truck. The CNN cameraman could not get in this man's face fast enough. Just inches from his face as he lay dying in the middle of the street, his life draining out of the holes plugged in him. The CNN group of turds stole this man's last ounce of dignity as he died...Disgusting!
I take pictures myself and I have been in a situation where I had to question what I was about to do.
It was nothing compared to a man dying, I was shooting a Lions game at Ford Field and a player was seriously injured right in front of me, (I was on the sidelines) but I chose to put the camera down. I don't know if it was right or wrong, but I sure didn't feel like a scumbag afterwards!
I also ask people before I take their picture, I have ran into many of celebrities and I always ask for the shot. If they say "No" I don't take it.
God forbid Mr. TV Producer one of these days it's your relative gasping for breath as they're dying in a car wreck; "BROUGHT TO YOU LIVE!"
So I ask you again. What if that was your 21 year old son Mr. TV Executive? How would you like to watch that?
