Got Damn ESPN

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Originally Posted by Coach Pants

Yes lets just act like it didn't happen. Ohhh fantasyland! Pink unicorns and all you can eat cotton candy!!!

Reporting it, but not showing every scrap of video of it, isn't pretending it didn't happen.

Originally Posted by Mumtaz

Reporting it, but not showing every scrap of video of it, isn't pretending it didn't happen.

You aren't being forced to watch it. Unless you're one of the 10 people in the U.S. who doesn't have a remote control, could you please stop with the e-mails that do nothing more than try and censor the press and take away information from the rest of us? Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Coach Pants

You aren't being forced to watch it. Unless you're one of the 10 people in the U.S. who doesn't have a remote control, could you please stop with the e-mails that do nothing more than try and censor the press and take away information from the rest of us? Thanks.

I think there is a vast difference between "The Press" and "You-Tube".

You? Apparently not so much.

Originally Posted by Mumtaz

I think there is a vast difference between "The Press" and "You-Tube".

You? Apparently not so much.

That's not for you to decide and try to control. I have no problem with you having an opinion but when you try and turn into some sort of god and use that opinion to control the press and restrict what others can see, that's when I tell you to gfy.

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Originally Posted by Coach Pants

That's not for you to decide and try to control. I have no problem with you having an opinion but when you try and turn into some sort of god and use that opinion to control the press and restrict what others can see, that's when I tell you to gfy.

My opinion is that the 11:00pm local NBC news affiliate doesn't have to dig up and show every scrape of video they have of Eight Belles dying when discussing this story.

Including, after showing all the film they have of her laying on her side with the vets giving her injections and her legs straight out to the side, quivering - a pan shot, with the news announcer saying, "Watch here, in the corner of this clip of Big Brown, Eight Belles is the head in the right hand corner, you can see her bob her head and go down". And the overhead of her going down.

I have every right to complain loud, long and publically to the news editor about deciding to show gratuitous video crap of a horse in severe distress and dying that adds nothing whatsoever explainatory to the story.

You're free to contact him and encourage him to show more of it.

It adds nothing to story? Really????

It's impossible to be rational with someone who is completely out of touch with reality. Good luck to you.

[horseofcourse]

In my house I'm more upset with the Viagra and Cialis commercials than Eight Belles coverage!! I can't even watch the KY Derby or baseball games with my kids anymore without them hearing about 7 hour erections 4 times in a couple hours!!

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Originally Posted by Coach Pants

It adds nothing to story? Really????

It's impossible to be rational with someone who is completely out of touch with reality. Good luck to you.

Yeah. In my opinion it adds nothing at all to the story.

You trying to lecture me on the "reality" of animal death and euthanasia is beyond a joke.

[letswastemoney]

It's a story, just like a man getting shot at a liquor shop is a story, I don't see the problem with this...it's their job.

[mrmikegap]

What happened to Eight Belles was tragic, but it could have been even worse. Imagine if she had won the race. NBC would have been showing her galloping out when she went down.