Needless length of footage? Absolutely. A shot of the poor girl’s body being hauled off in a tarp would’ve sufficed.

Gruesome? Gimme a break. It’s a profile shot from afar of a face with a bit of blood trickling down the side of it from her mouth. I’ve seen pictures in the news of people who’d been in a bar fight and survived that looked far more “gruesome” than that. And “her face pale in death?” It wasn’t noticeably paler than your average passer-by in stock footage of city crowds out shopping, but I award Rachel Sklar full points for milking it for all that it’s worth. Bullshit as poetry.

But I’m sure that a bunch of emasculated metrosexuals are already weighing their options regarding suing Fox for “emotional distress.” One should never pass up on a free meal ticket, after all.

Grow a pair, please, it’s sickening.

A “line” that, btw, seems to be working rather well for them, don’t you think? Maybe they know something you don’t?

Grow Fins on July 2, 2008 at 1:23 PM

i agree. and we have become like the Romans in soooo many ways. what excites us… our borders… so much so.

Even Fox, which recognised the crying need for a conservative point of view in the media, still buys into the liberal line that conservatives are gun-totin, bible thumpin’, uneducated hicks who want their news delivered with hysteria, bikinis and blood.
There’s still an opening for another cable channel to present intelligent conservative programming, but of course, they would rather die.

A “line” that, btw, seems to be working rather well for them, don’t you think? Maybe they know something you don’t?

…this. Its just another straw.

eplain on July 2, 2008 at 1:03 PM

Precisely, as I stated in my post earlier comment:

“We can predict future behavior by looking at past behavior.”

I completely agree with you and I am writing Fox News yourcomment@foxnews.com to express those very sentiments and to express my disdain regarding his latest disgraceful behavior involving that poor model. He is destroying the Fox News brand.

sinsing on July 2, 2008 at 12:20 PM

dont misunderstand though, i dont think this is all that bad. just another act of his in a long line of gratuitous acts. he has done FAR worse than…this. Its just another straw.

I couldnt disagree more. the man is vermin fecal matter. any good he appears to be doing, I believe, is calculated by him to get face time, so as to talk about and bring attention to himself. I’ve been witnessing it for decades, no changing my mind. As far as him being “pro American”, he is pro illegal immigration. if you are not against it, you are for it…period. He is more sympathetic to the illegal Hispanics in America than we Americans. That is documented.

I completely agree with you and I am writing Fox News yourcomment@foxnews.com to express those very sentiments and to express my disdain regarding his latest disgraceful behavior involving that poor model. He is destroying the Fox News brand.

Geraldo Rivera is one of those personalities that can be entertaining in some circumstances… .He’s also been fairly supportive of the Iraq war. He hates criminals that prey on kids and his passion on that subject really illuminates the crime stories he covers… However, I do think the guy means well, he’s very pro-American…

Jill1066 on July 2, 2008 at 11:49 AM

I couldnt disagree more. the man is vermin fecal matter. any good he appears to be doing, I believe, is calculated by him to get face time, so as to talk about and bring attention to himself. I’ve been witnessing it for decades, no changing my mind. As far as him being “pro American”, he is pro illegal immigration. if you are not against it, you are for it…period. He is more sympathetic to the illegal Hispanics in America than we Americans. That is documented.

Why does Fox News keep this shock jock around? He’s an embarrassment. This is the same guy who attempted to reveal the location of our troops in Iraq (101st Airborne) by writing their location, in the sand, during a Fox News report. Fox News should have fired him then. My family and friends will NOT watch Geraldo Rivera.

There are so many talented people who could easy take his place. How about Michelle Malkin, a true patriot?

The grinning idiot then goes Oops . . .Must have been
a technical glitch. A$$hole

It’s the O’Reilly dilemma revisited:

C’mon AP, O’Reilly would never have aired this vid.

But by all means, hyperventilate if it makes you feel nobler than thou.

Let’s not mince words here: What a dick.

Metro on July 2, 2008 at 10:03 AM

That about sums it up.

I can’t believe this aired. The truth is pretty simple: the suicide of some hottie nobody outside the fashion world has ever heard of is not news …

… unless there’s a macabre video to show.

This didn’t air despite that video; it only aired BECAUSE of the video.

FoxNews ought to be ashamed. Geraldo, of course, has no shame.

And is indeed a dick of epic proportions.

Rational Thought on July 2, 2008 at 9:53 AM

Thank you! some sense…
and btw, if you are going to air the story at all, why NOT show the images. maybe it will keep others from killingthemselves .. it certainly shows a less than glamorous “fairy tale” aspect to the act

There is something to be said about portraying suicide as it really is and not as glamorous as they make it in the movies. There was some cable series that dealt with the aftermath of suicide, i.e., the anger and sadness of the families, the people who had to clean up the mess, etc. More people should see it.

And would anyone give a damn if she wasn’t a “supermodel”? I had a friend who every time there was a female suicide he would get real serious and ask, Was she … pretty?

Anyway, sorry the young woman thought this was her only option — it was not.