[BC] "Breaking News" Interruptions

[Alan Kline]

That was the Yassir Arafat situation I referred to previously. I can 
understand being gun shy. What that makes it is management's failure to 
establish clear guidelines, and then back the people who make the calls.

I'm sorry, folks, but you still can't convince me that a rerun of 
"Stupid Pet Tricks" was more justified at that point than the death of a 
President.

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Bernie Courtney wrote:
> although I forget the exact circumstances surrounding the situation, 
> about 2 years ago a producer for CBS news was fired for interrupting a 
> program to make some 'special report' that the network didn't feel was 
> 'special' enough to interrupt programming for.  So if I were in that 
> position currently I think I'd be a little gun shy in that situation as 
> well.