Emmy Opening in Poor Taste?

I think his point is that you can find those events multiple times a day on various types of programs in both serious drama or being parodied in skits.

And you choose this one instance to jump on a soapbox.

But then maybe you're just one man who couldn't take it anymore.

A reasonable and prudent man like this guy:

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I was really just hoping to spur some debate. The backlash of snarky single sentence responses has been disheartening (thanks to those who took the time to actually contribute thought to your posts).
 
Hairy Lime said:
You'll notice none of those tragedies were used in the skit. Thus they're not really at play here.
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Dude, the point is where do you draw the line? What if they did have those tragedies in the skit? Would that be in poor taste too?

The point is tragedies happen all the time. Unless it's some major, significant, catastrophic event then it's not reasonable to expect the Emmys to alter their comedic skit that was based on a TV SHOW in response to a tragedy which is in the grand scheme of things not that significant (i.e. more people die from car crashes every single day than that one plane).
 
The Machinist said:
I saw HORRIFIC pictures and video on MSNBC during this prison "expose" they were doing. Some of the most gruesome stuff I've ever seen.
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I agree completely. Where do you draw the line.

Well, at least the media doesn't air everything. That has to count for something...

"graphic images to follow"

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I was really just hoping to spur some debate.
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Admirable.

But this is a very old debate by this point. And it has nothing to do with you personally its just I got tired of this kind of sensitivity a long time ago.
 
Oh, I didn't take it personally, Machinist. I'm not that sensitive.

The point is tragedies happen all the time. Unless it's some major, significant, catastrophic event then it's not reasonable to expect the Emmys to alter their comedic skit that was based on a TV SHOW in response to a tragedy which is in the grand scheme of things not that significant (i.e. more people die from car crashes every single day than that one plane).
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Like it or not, the 49 deaths represent the largest mass casualty on US soil since Hurricane Katrina and the first commercial jet disaster in almost 5 years in the US. If that doesn't represent something significant, not sure what does.

I'm not debating that people die of awful things every day. I'm saying when you turn on your TV in Lexington KY on Sunday night after watching in horror as a plane at your local airport crashed and killed 49 people, you would hope that the Emmy's or a similar program would be a safe haven from that emotional trauma.

Not sure what's so hard about showing a little sensitivity. Nobody's rights are being trampled here. It's just a little social courtesy. There's little enough of that these days.
 
Not sure what's so hard about showing a little sensitivity. Nobody's rights are being trampled here. It's just a little social courtesy. There's little enough of that these days.
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*Sigh*, yes, "mass casualty" doesn't happen much, (although thousands more die every day from other reasons, just not in one place) but in a country of MILLIONS and MILLIONS of people, 49 deaths just hours before an unrelated and highly planned event is not a reason to change. They were not even making fun of plane crashes in general. They were just imitating a popular television moment. Why should NBC withhold a very funny skit from hundreds of MILLIONS of people because 49 died.

And yes you are trampling rights when a loud minority can bully people around into censorship robbing creative content for the majority. It isn't a literal constitutional right, but nonetheless.
 
A safe haven? What the heck.
I don't know. I'm a firm believer in IF YOU DONT LIKE IT. CHANGE THE CHANNEL. OR DON'T WATCH. Same goes for films. Don't like 9/11 films. No one is forcing you to pay to see the films.

When my grandmother died we went home that night and watched tv and there were deaths all over. Characters dieing on movies, and television shows. So should I call them all insensetive because my grandmother died and it just so happens they air an episode or movie where someone dies!?
 
It'd be great if you guys could keep the totality of my posts in this thread in mind when replying to my subsequent posts, because you're trampling ground I've already covered ... and on the side you yourselves fall.

*sigh* indeed.
 
Hairy Lime said:
Like it or not, the 49 deaths represent the largest mass casualty on US soil since Hurricane Katrina and the first commercial jet disaster in almost 5 years in the US. If that doesn't represent something significant, not sure what does.
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I've never understood why a mass casulty is somehow more significant than the individual tragedies that people suffer everyday. The mass casulty just offers more sensationalism for people to justify forcing social courtesies.

Hairy Lime said:
I'm not debating that people die of awful things every day. I'm saying when you turn on your TV in Lexington KY on Sunday night after watching in horror as a plane at your local airport crashed and killed 49 people, you would hope that the Emmy's or a similar program would be a safe haven from that emotional trauma.
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Again, I disagree with you here. I have lost love ones to very tragic circumstances and the last thing I would want is for everyone else to have to wallow in my grief or be affected by what happened to me or my family. Unless the Emmy's were specifically making fun of that particular crash, I say let everyone else go on with their lives.
 
I guarantee somewhere else on cable televison a plane was crashing, a car was flipping, or a bomb was on a train.

Reminds me of the classic TV/Film moment when the guy just gets dumped and he turns on the television. Flipping through every channel, he is met with images of people in love, dating, sex and romance.... just rubbing the salt in his wound. :)
 
I can tell you if 200 people died in a foreign plane crash and it wasn't the UK, we wouldn't even think about it. No one would even connect the dots.

EDIT: so yes, location probably matters.
 
I'm sick of "What if's" in a debate. This isn't a "What If" scenario. It didn't happen at LAX, it happened in Kentucky.

EDIT: Besides even if it did happen at LAX we wouldn't know what would happen because we're not NBC.
 
Hairy to answer your question: Emmy Opening in Poor Taste?

IMO: Yes.

although im not offended, i do think it was in poor taste. but i expect that from tv.

i would have liked to see them pull it... and if they did we would probably all be singing praises to them for doing so.

these days respect lives on an island that is really hard to find.

btw... could you believe the facelifts on the old charlie's angels ? what the heck happened to them? scary.
 
I'll bet some poor unfortunate person slipped in their bathtub today and died.

Do we now say any display of a bathtub on TV is insensitive?

A life is a life, no?

I bet you'll watch the tube tonight, insensitive to the suffering of everyone who see's something that reminds them of someone now gone, in one of those thousands of shows.

Take a pill, chill out, move on.
 
Thanks, Kovarova. I think that's what people are missing. I think it was in poor taste, but I wasn't personally offended. Folks seem to think I've got something personally at stake here.

Thus I'm told to chill out, etc. Interesting stuff.
 
poor timing. I don't think it's that big of a deal.

If you think that was poor taste there are a million other things going on that a far more disturbing and offensive in the world.

but you shouldn't be told to chill out. We live in a screwy screwy world, thats all.
 
Our friend Hairy Lime started this thread and asked "Am I being too sensitive?

Thoughts?"

He can then take the comments of others to his questions, good bad or otherwise. After all, he posted the thread for effect, not purpose.
 
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