[BC] "Breaking News" Interruptions

[Robert Meuser]

A crawl would have been adequate.  The guy was dead, no real video 
required. Not an ongoing breaking news story.

R

Alan Kline wrote:

> 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.
>
> ak
>
> 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.
>