Mother learns while on TV missing girl was slain

[redirish28]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101007/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_tragic_reality_tv_3



ROME – An Italian mother whose anguish over her missing daughter gripped the nation for weeks was told on live TV that her the teenager had been slain, allegedly by the girl's uncle, whose house was hosting the show.

Concetta Serrano, looking like she was in shock, murmured "my brother-in-law is innocent," and "I can't believe it" as she sat in the dining room of the uncle's house.

The TV anchor of a popular show about missing person cases on RAI state TV told her late Wednesday night the breaking news that "one of the persons" being interrogated by police in Taranto, southern Italy, had allegedly confessed to killing Sarah Scazzi, 15, and that the body had been found.
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And I thought American TV was bad.

[petronius]

1. Somewhere, right this second, Nancy Grace is crying bitter hot tears of jealousy,

and throwing everything within reach at the assistants and producers who never suggested that she pull this stunt first...

[DJ13]

2. So a typical night for her?

:rofl:

[Hannah Bell]

3. and i'm sure the producers knew it & wanted to get her reaction on camera so the masses could

salivate.

sick.

[HuckleB]

4. TV culture is, well, I have no words for it.

It's this way in much of the world, unfortunately. The US is not alone.