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Fox News is being sued over on-air suicide.

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If you read the article the kids heard about an on air suicide at school and went home to find it on youtube.

They literally have zero chance of winning this.
 
I think a point that has been overlooked is this:

"Romero's children heard rumours at school of a suicide on live television. They went home and searched for the footage on YouTube, only realising it was their father while watching."

Might as well sue Youtube, their internet provider and the kids at the school who told them about it.
 
rh71 said:
says they watched it on the internet, which I'm questioning whether it was a live feed...
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Which would not have been captured and uploaded to youtube if it were not aired live.

It's a flawed string of logic.

The trauma to the kids was the cause of their father, not from Fox. But Fox has more money than their father.
 
cubby1223 said:
Which would not have been captured and uploaded to youtube if it were not aired live.

It's a flawed string of logic.

The trauma to the kids was the cause of their father, not from Fox. But Fox has more money than their father.
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I'm waiting for the family of the guy to sue NBC for showing him trying to commit suicide. :sneaky:
 
Watched this live with my wife, and I had a good idea of what was going to happen, and so should have the people at Fox. My wife will tell you that in the final moments I was shouting at the tv, CUT AWAY, CUT AWAY, CUT AWAY.
 
randomrogue said:
I hope she loses and loses bad. Let them draw out her lawyer fees until she's bankrupt.
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Nope. No fee unless you win.

Otherwise only the rich could sue. We all hate bullshit lawsuits, but like most of you I think they get a pass here 🙂
 
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runzwithsizorz said:
Watched this live with my wife, and I had a good idea of what was going to happen, and so should have the people at Fox. My wife will tell you that in the final moments I was shouting at the tv, CUT AWAY, CUT AWAY, CUT AWAY.
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Shep was shouting the same thing. From what I can tell, the problem was that he was watching the delay and the live feed was being broadcast. He was shouting "get off it. Get OFF it! Get OFF! GET OFF!" ...after it had already aired. Then he slumped back into his chair...completely defeated by the mistake.

It finally cut to commercial. When Shep came back on, he gave an emphatic and authentic apology and said they would do everything possible to prevent anything like that from happening again.
 
Shep is the only good guy Fox has. That said, I think the real cause of emotional distress to the children was the guy who killed himself, not Fox.
 
Seriously people, don't make me sympathize with Fox News, I don't want you on "my team" if you think a frivolous lawsuit is justified depending on who it is brought against. I hope this doesn't derail P&N because that lunacy should stay contained. I was hoping it was becoming general knowledge that you should accept the consequences if you plop your kids in front of a computer/TV instead of raising them.

I am not saying that this family did that, they could have been "family of the year" for all I know and spent all kinds of time with their kids. The fact remains that the kids saw this footage on the internet, which has spawned other wholesome mind scarring abominations as goatse, lemon party, tubgirl, etc.

It was in bad taste for Fox News to air it live as the story mentions, but not the first or last thing done in bad taste to boost reviews. People kill themselves every day, and just because a video of it is not on youtube does not make it any less terrible to those closely involved.

I noticed they are not going after Google who ultimately served the content to the children that actively seeked it. While it can be proven the people who film and create content are ultimately responsible for distributing it, that is hard to apply to a camera crew who is just doing there job to the best of their ability.
 
Fox forgoes the live delay and now these children's final memory of their father is his televised death, now an ever-present part of internet history. The children weren't criminals, they did nothing to earn what Fox has pinned to them for the rest of their lives. They get to go to school and field questions about it, get teased and all the fun things that teenagers do to each other. They also cannot file a lawsuit. The only facts we can deduce from the articles linked about the mother is that she never married the children's father, and she filed the lawsuit. Give them enough money to get the hell out of Phoenix, and put a chunk in trust for college.

Fox really gets off with a "my bad, sorry"? Accidents like this aren't acceptable. I really can't believe that anyone here would accept being treated in a similar manner under similar circumstances.
 
I don't get why people cannot see that it their FATHERS fault they were exposed to this. He was a shit-bag, a coward and killed himself while being filmed.

Fox gets a pass. They didn't do anything, but film the news.

The mother just wants a payday.
 
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