"Finally, it appeared that Saddam Hussein would die during 'Larry King Live.'"

[DeepModem Mom]

LAT: CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
On TV, death watch for dictator
By Paul Brownfield, Times Staff Writer
December 30, 2006

Predictions went from "today or tomorrow" to "in the next hours" to "by all accounts very soon" to "any moment now." Finally, it appeared that Saddam Hussein would die during "Larry King Live."

"Are a lot of people in Iraq going to miss him?" King asked colleague John Roberts.

Let no stone go unturned. Except this: Would American television networks, cable or broadcast, show the actual event? Would there be video?

A CBS news official was quoted expressing squeamishness; others, like CNN, Fox News and NBC, were taking more of a wait-and-see attitude. Networks used the prospect of footage to create an all-day "Dead Man Walking" scenario, as day became night became the morning call for prayer in Baghdad....

On Al Jazeera English, journalist Nir Rosen was asked whether Iraqis would be glued to their sets waiting for news of the despot's death. "I think most Iraqis don't have electricity," Rosen noted dryly, "and their televisions don't work."

On cable news Friday, there was this weird, almost macabre, juxtaposition — news shows cutting between President Ford, lying in state in Palm Desert, and breathless coverage of when Hussein would be executed....

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-tv30dec30,0,5697257.story?track=mostviewed-splashpage

[POAS]

1. The only person dying on

Larry King's show is Larry King!

[confludemocrat]

2. It's appropo that this barbarity would be husbanded by the U.S, and its media

Meaning the hanging "ceremony" and all the illegitimate shit that led up to it. Sickening. It's of-a-piece with the illegal, smarmy, fraudulent, corrupt enterprize of the Iraq invasion and occupation that CNN would use it to sell commercials.

[stopbush]

3. "Tonight, Saddam's execution. Tomorrow night, Paris Hilton & Tammy Faye

will visit. Then, for the new year, we'll talk to William Hung about how it feels to have that name this week.
All on Larry King Live!"

[badgerpup]

4. I wonder how many people caught and understood this statement.

On Al Jazeera English, journalist Nir Rosen was asked whether Iraqis would be glued to their sets waiting for news of the despot's death. "I think most Iraqis don't have electricity," Rosen noted dryly, "and their televisions don't work."

...and if it crossed their minds WHY most Iraqis don't have electricity anymore. :eyes:

The comment that they have TV sets infers that once they did have the electricity in order to be able to use them.

:banghead: