Fox News just aired a live suicide following a car chase.

[nadinbrzezinski]

103. Actually car chases are releveant

and we tweet them regularly... to help people STAY AWAY FROM THEM.

Car chases are among the most dangerous of police actions, and can and do end badly often.

So it is a duty of a news organization to WARN people when one is happening in your area.

You may not have ended in the middle of one, but you really do not want to. For the record, we almost did the other day... and we try to avoid them.

By the way, I am a journalist, I do this shit for real, and the paper I work for has a twitter feed (where we warn people of fires, chases shootings, oh my, and update them during wild fires and other emergencies when in the field.)

Hey, I did not get to cover that one, and there was no twitter back then, but locally we even had one involving a tank... yup. I am dead serious, and it ended up in the death of the tank driver. It WAS major news.

I was at my sister's well before doing this, and we were watching the tv, when they broke into breaking nooz, the chase involved a city bus. I stayed with her until it was over. As a former medic, I know just how bad they can end. I do not want to be in the middle of one.

So no, I do not fault them for covering a chase. The question, which is what is relevant here, is whether a local chase is worthy of national news. When the tank was involved, I suppose, after all that M-60 was stolen from the local armory.

I guess it is a slow nooz day in the studio... like when we all ended up at a snoozer of a hazmat incident in Lakeside. We, ok, it is MY BEAT... the rest of the nooz crews... slow nooz day.

Here is another one where we all felt pretty much snookered, local dems (all 15 of them) welcoming Romney at the highway exit... nope that wasn't nooz either, but multiple nooz editors had us all in the field covering that.

So to answer your question, yes, they are relevant, and if I happen to get nooz of one right now, over the scanner, guess what I will be doing?