Tookie injection observers all over cable news: What is going on?

ChairmanAgnostic

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:41 PM
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Tookie injection observers all over cable news: What is going on?

Why is it news for the cable stations to questiona reporter who "won" the right to observe the lethal injection and to watch a man die?
Why do we even want to know what they think? How is that newsworthy? I simply do not understand.

What am I missing here?

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sasha031

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:42 PM
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1. could the masses want public executions

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ChairmanAgnostic

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:44 PM
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2. you mean like France during the revolution?

Dr. Guillotine was a busy man. And reportedly thousands came out for the show.

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Raydawg1234

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Tue Dec-13-05 06:09 PM
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10. exactly

Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 06:10 PM by Raydawg1234

Remember the cameras in the OJ trial?

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johnfunk

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Tue Dec-13-05 06:47 PM
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13. America's media future: pay-per-view executions for profit!

The ultimate convergence of the National Infotainment State and privatized prisons.

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IntravenousDemilo

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Tue Dec-13-05 07:02 PM
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15. It may be the only way to produce so much revulsion in the people,

that the whole sick practice will be abolished. Mandatory attendance!

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GrumpyGreg

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:45 PM
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3. A lot of sickos out there want to know all the details. Amazing!

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ChairmanAgnostic

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Tue Dec-13-05 06:50 PM
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14. A friend who drives a lot keeps a digital handy for shots of bad accidents

then he tries to sell them to attorneys and newspapers. His scrapbook is large, and I have no interest in seeing it.

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TX-RAT

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:46 PM
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4. Seen more than my share

Don't need to see any more.

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spindrifter

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:49 PM
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5. I think that

the "value" is to let people know that this human being did not just gently fall asleep after his lethal injection--he was writhing around even though strapped down.
I think they were also to some extent trying to show the efforts by some of his support group who were supposedly mouthing "I love you," that people were trying to give him some comfort in his final conscious moments.
I have to admit, though, it was too much like taking my dog to the vet for the final visit for me to be able to listen for long.

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sniffa

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:52 PM
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6. dear penthouse

i never thought this wouLd happen to me, but i was Lucky enough to win a ticket to see an execution by LethaL injection.
when the switch was thrown, my juices reaLLy started to fLy... and as each pLunger pushed its ingredient into the ringer, i cLimaxed; that's 3 times in a onLy few minutes! by the time death was officiaLLy announced, i was wiped out and nodding off.

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dutchdemocrat

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:52 PM
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7. Mob Mentality

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ellenfl

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Tue Dec-13-05 06:04 PM
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8. propaganda to get people used to it. 'see, it's not so bad!' eom

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ChairmanAgnostic

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Tue Dec-13-05 06:07 PM
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9. preparing us for the neocon takeover?

oh great. that makes my day.

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newswolf56

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Tue Dec-13-05 06:34 PM
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11. As it says in the true song "Dirty Laundry":

It's interesting when people die.

This is the core principle of television reporting and one of an infinity of reasons why "television news" is a contradiction in terms.

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Raksha

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Tue Dec-13-05 06:40 PM
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12. I had a feeling it would be this way.

It's why I haven't turned on the news today. I don't WANT to know the morbid details! It's bad enough they did it at all.

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ChairmanAgnostic

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Tue Dec-13-05 08:25 PM
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16. Had I known they were holding a lottery for witnesses, I would have, too

But learning about it fresh, with the witnesses preening about how it struck them - that was not pleasant.
To make it worse, the questioners were - well - really bloody stupid.

Who here wrote that the fourth estate has become the fifth column? How true.

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