Since 911 calls are available to the press and public, we get to hear the worst (and sometimes, but more rarely, the best) of human nature.
Today, CNN has posted the 911 recording from the home where a Kansas City Chiefs football player shot and killed the mother of his child before, later, going to the Chiefs' locker room and killing himself.
I'm not going to play that video. The horror of the man's mother as she made the call about what her son was doing is not something that we should *want* to share. Instead, let me send her clean pity, untinged by hearing her anguished screams.
And CNN? Way too early. And what purpose is served by posting this?
Today, CNN has posted the 911 recording from the home where a Kansas City Chiefs football player shot and killed the mother of his child before, later, going to the Chiefs' locker room and killing himself.
I'm not going to play that video. The horror of the man's mother as she made the call about what her son was doing is not something that we should *want* to share. Instead, let me send her clean pity, untinged by hearing her anguished screams.
And CNN? Way too early. And what purpose is served by posting this?
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on 2012-12-05 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2012-12-05 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2012-12-05 05:11 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2012-12-05 05:31 pm (UTC)This has all been
on 2012-12-05 06:04 pm (UTC)It was an awful situation. It is in poor taste to keep showing/airing any video/audio of the event.
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on 2012-12-05 09:51 pm (UTC)