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

[Drunken Irishman]

118. Don't blame FOX. I really don't care.

I think it's clear they were in the wrong here. For starters, the incident you cite was a big reason why they decided to go with the 10 second delay ... so they could avoid problems like this. The fact that didn't happen this go around just shows how incompetent FOX can be. There is no reason they couldn't have stopped this from broadcasting. They've got censors set up for a reason, delays set up for a reason, and it failed here.

Beyond that, though, I still fail to see why they were broadcasting this in the first place? Is it really news and knowing the chances this could end badly - a nasty car accident, a shootout, a suicide, maybe a hostage situation...anything, really, why go ahead with the broadcast?

You don't have to see anything wrong with it. I do. I find it tactless and furthers my point that the media today is more interested in sensationalism than reporting hard news.

FOX should be criticized for this. Any network that would allow this to get through should be ... even if it was an accident. The fact is, this all could've been avoided had they not broadcast the car chases.