I realize that the Emmy opening was pretaped weeks or even months ago, but seriously, opening the show with a plane crash after today’s events? It really came off bad here in Lexington, because LEX 18 literally cut from coverage of the crash to the opening of the Emmys.
Please tell me there was a disclaimer before it started that we missed here in Lexington.
How else are you going to open a lost parody?
I think you should have called it “WTH, NBC? SRSLY?”
I didn’t see it, but if there wasn’t a disclaimer or something at least in KY, then I agree.
Oh, relax. It’s just a plane crash, happens all the time. Not like it’s terrorism or a presidential assassination or something.
Heh. That would have been pretty good.
KGS, when you go from a discussion of some of the 49 people who perished in the crash to a depiction of a plane crash without so much as a “Hey, sorry about what we’re about to show you, it was taped weeks ago” it’s a bit disturbing.
And I’m sorry that a plane crash doesn’t rise to the level of important enough for you to give a shit about, but I think there are a number of people who would disagree with your assessment.
So a local station who had no knowledge of what was coming from the national network cut to footage from the national network which had no idea of what the affiliate had just finished airing? The bastards!
Since it’s the Pit, I’ll skip the standard mention of wishing the best for the families.
What I will mention (not directly to the OP), is the obsession about how an entertainment spectacle, performed by entertainers for the sake of praising entertainers is such a big deal.
What pissed me off is the game wasn’t aired because of it.
Granted, it’s a pre-season NFL game that is glorified practice, and it was two teams I have very limited interest in as far as the run-up to the regular season, but it’s still football.
And I’ll take that over Hollywood masturbation any day.
Of course, Otto hits the nail here. If I may take it a step further, should we now “correct” all programming based on what happens in a country with so many sub- and sub-sub-stories? Approximately 300 million people living life every day, and a national network has to adjust on-the-fly? Not gonna happen.
And yes. I’m really pissed about not watching a game. Dammit.
Well, let’s see… WLEX-TV cleared the entire day’s schedule in favor of news coverage, NBC aviation expert Robert Hager did a live phone interview with them and oh yeah, they’re the NBC affiliate for the city where the crash occurred. Yeah, I think someone at NBC headquarters could have put 2 and 2 together there.
The point remains: NBC could have dropped in a quick “Tonight’s opening sequence was recorded prior to today’s events, and our sympathies are with the friends and family of the victims of today’s crash.”
Some of you seem to think this was someone’s Cessna that crashed. It may not have been a 747 from LaGuardia, but it was still a commuter jet, and it is still the first major domestic aviation accident in almost 5 years.
I thought it was pretty cringeworthy. Bad luck for NBC, but oh well. If someone lost someone in that crash, the Emmy awards are the least of their problems.
Why would they even be aware of it? You’re assuming that there’s some kind of instant, real-time communication going on between the news department, the affiliates, the Emmys producers, and the president of NBC Corp. Things ain’t that organized in business, there’s a completely different chain of command for the entertainment and news divisions.
Heck, I wouldn’t have even known there was a plane crash today, except for the few seconds I flipped to MSNBC. It sucks, and I’m sorry for the families of the survivors, but the world’s not gonna stop for something like that. Life goes on.
Just to be clear, I don’t dismiss the crash as “someone’s Cessna”. My minor point was in a land of 300 million people, it’s not unreasonable for the rest of the country to keep moving on, despite tragedy. Are we to cancel automobile commercials in cities that have reported deaths in car wrecks?
I would suggest calling your local affiliate to lay the smackdown. Not NBC as a whole.
After all, you dismiss people that die in Cessna crashes.
Does the federal government have an entire bureau devoted to investigating traffic accidents? If they do, then sure, I’m overreacting.
I’m not saying they should have canceled the frickin’ Emmys or anything. I just think a little consideration would have been more than appropriate. I know they didn’t shoot that opening today, and I don’t expect them to have edited it on short notice. All I’m saying is, a brief acknowledgement of current events might have been warranted.
If this crash had happened in Lexington, MA instead of Lexington, KY, the response would have been a lot different. But because it happened outside of NYC or LA, it’s “not that important” and “life goes on.”
Hey, don’t think I’m coming down on you over this. Trust me, when mentioning locale of a news story, us North Dakotans chuckle when it’s -40 and the media gets in a tizzy over Boston or NYC hitting “frigid” temps of 20 degrees. It happens. At some point you realize you don’t count. It isn’t fun, but you eventually get beaten into submission. Living in “fly-over” country isn’t flattering, but the peace and tranquility of not having to worry about day-to-day living makes up for the disdain of those in the “important” cities.
If it doesn’t happen in a city that’s “important”, it doesn’t happen.
And I’m still trying to find the aforementioned Cessna model that crashed. (That wasn’t directed to you, brian.)
The NTSB does investigate significant road traffic accidents, and whether it did or not you’re way overreacting.
Do you have some proof that anyone associated with the Emmys or anyone nationally at NBC even knew that your local station was carrying plane crash coverage?
Oh, horseshit. Do you have any idea how ludicrous you sound? Just a little tip, hon, if you’re going to claim that no one cares about anything outside NYC or LA then using Massachusetts as a counter-example isn’t really the wisest tactic.
Would you like some cheese with that whine?
Seriously, get the fuck over yourself. This has to be one of the lamest pittings in recent memory.
As a matter of fact, they do: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Granted, they don’t personally investigate every single fender-bender, but they do keep statistics, and watch for trends like Firestone tires blowing out and SUV’s flipping over and stuff.
Okay, I’ll go along with this. Yes, the crash would’ve gotten more attention if it happened in an urbanized area instead of Bumblefuck City, Podunk State. That said, at least you’re in America so you got some recognition in the national media. But before you complain more about being ignored…did you even know about the plane crash last week that killed 170 people in Ukraine?
Didn’t think so.
Here’s the Herald-Leader’s story. It appears that the WLEX people didn’t know about the Emmy opening, and by the time anyone could do anything about it, it was over.
I would say the onus was on NBC to have some clue about the content of their show, and some awareness that the first major US plane crash in five years was going to generate some coverage. It certainly did here.
All it would have taken was one person with a clue at NBC to say, Hey, I bet the stations in Kentucky are saturating this one, let’s give them a head’s up.
Apparently no word made its way through. That could have been a failure at any point in the communications chain. I somehow doubt any families of the deceased were watching the Emmys, or even the related news coverage of the crash.
So the few seconds of unpleasantness were experienced mostly by gawkers in any event.
Pathetic pitting. Those comparing it to car crashes are correct. Should we pull all the Chrysler / Dr. Z commercials off the air in anytime there is an automobile death? After all, rougly 141 people die daily in automobile accidents. The timing was unfortunate for the local NBC affiliate, but beyond that it should be a non-event - and not because it happened in Kentucky.