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CBS fired a producer for interupting an episode of CSI to inform the public of Arafat's death. This is the most pathetic thing I have ever heard. I am calling all nationstates members to send CBS a message, via internet, phone, or mail tht we are ashamed that they would fire an employee who respected the fact that a world event had happened that will effect all our lives. If the President, God Forbid, was to meet an untimely death, it would be the talk of the nation immediately. To ignore world events and leaders, which is what CBS is pushing towards, is sad and I am ashamed of the media!

Fuck that CSI is much more important! :D

CBS fired a producer for interupting an episode of CSI to inform the public of Arafat's death. This is the most pathetic thing I have ever heard. I am calling all nationstates members to send CBS a message, via internet, phone, or mail tht we are ashamed that they would fire an employee who respected the fact that a world event had happened that will effect all our lives. If the President, God Forbid, was to meet an untimely death, it would be the talk of the nation immediately. To ignore world events and leaders, which is what CBS is pushing towards, is sad and I am ashamed of the media!
Imagine that, firing a producer for not doing their job, which was to contact soemone above him before he broke into the finla minutes of one of CBS highest rated shows to announce that one of the worlds great terrorist had died 20 years past his relevance. OHHHH, NOOOOO! Call CBS!!!!!

While you are on the phone with them ask them when they are going to fire CBS NEWs dicks like Rather, and Mapres for lying about the president and trying to influence the election.


Shaddap!

Imagine that, firing a producer for not doing their job, which was to contact soemone above him before he broke into the finla minutes of one of CBS highest rated shows to announce that one of the worlds great terrorist had died 20 years past his relevance. OHHHH, NOOOOO! Call CBS!!!!!

While you are on the phone with them ask them when they are going to fire CBS NEWs dicks like Rather, and Mapres for lying about the president and trying to influence the election.


Shaddap!

The Israeli-Palestinian feud is more prevalent now than it ever was. And the death of Arafat could lead to the reversal of 20 years of work. The Israelis now have a very militant leader, and with the death of Arafat a power void has been created that could lead to a very militant leader gaining power for the Palestinians. The middle east is powder keg. And with our presense in Iraq and the death of Arafat the fuse could be lit. I think it was very relevant. It's too bad that the public is too worried about missing two minutes of a shitty Law and Order rip off to care.

Rather reported what he thought was relevant news. After a million INTERNET BLOGS reported that they were fake because of questionable spacing, he said they might be fake. He later apologized for the error. Never once did he lie.

After "Heidi-Gate" you'd think people would learn. :gundge: :gundge:

Link?

I'm sure there's more to the story than just that.

I am going to assume you meant CSI New York (as it was Wednesday night in the US when word reached the US)

first of all, I didn't see it, but news of his death could easily scrolled across the bottom of the screen (we get weather alerts that way after all). If not, it wasn't as if he was going to come back to life if the word didn't reach everyone instantly or that his death was an unexpected shock (he had been in a coma 2 weeks by that point).

nor was he a beloved figure in the USA

a simple 30 second announcement between programs or during a commercial break would surely have been sufficient, especially as the local news hits the air waves right after that show and plenty of details would have been available.

so in business terms, I would have fired him too... advertisers get unhappy when their highly paid ads are devalued by time lost on the program they are sponsoring.... we are talking millions of dollars here. From a business perspective, CBS really had no choice.

Morally, well, the death of a world figure (like him or not, he was) does merit breaking into our entertainment for a minute or so, but this was a business decision, not a political or moral one. Businesses don't have the job of being moral, they have the job of making money, and CBS is a business.

Link?

I'm sure there's more to the story than just that.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=253323

The producer responsible ignored network policy to contact a senior executive before interrupting a regularly scheduled program for a news report, the source said.

Also, with Arafat reportedly near death for several days, CBS News had left explicit instructions for how to deal with that event: run a news "crawl" at the bottom of the screen and direct viewers to the next newscast for more information.

--The Democratic States of Cogitation
"Think about it for a moment."

I think the main reason the person was fired was all the complaints that were sent in because of the interruption of CSI. You can try a counter email campaign but I doubt it's going to change anything.

Let's never forget that nothing is more important than entertaining the American people and diverting us from contemplating anything more meaningful than the latest copudrama and, of course, the commercials, which are the real reason for the entertainment in the first place. After all our role as consumers is much more important than our diminishing role as citizens.

Let's never forget that nothing is more important than entertaining the American people and diverting us from contemplating anything more meaningful than the latest copudrama and, of course, the commercials, which are the real reason for the entertainment in the first place. After all our role as consumers is much more important than our diminishing role as citizens.


I totally agree, our role as consumers does appear to be much more important. But I think that CBS went a little bit overboard by firing him.

My previous post was dripping with sarcasm. I hate consumerism. Now that Communism has fallen I can't wait for Capitalism to follow it into its grave.