Luge Crash

[jward]

So i wake up to the Today show on NBC this morning, and they are talking about this crash. As if that isn't awful enough, they actually show the entire video. I was half asleep when I saw it and it made me sick at my stomach. Maybe its just me, but I feel that was in very poor taste for NBC to show someone's death like that. Just feel like more respect should have been shown to his team, friends and family.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/sp...cs/13luge.html

[wahoowake]

I agree, and all the major networks are showing this.

[Bevan]

^^^^^^^ +1

[DanielC]

Got to get those ratings.

[j2nh]

It got worse today. They went to his hometown and showed video of a grieving father and small tight knight community in absolute shock.

A horrible, tragic accident in and of itself, it did not need to be compounded by a classless TV network.

RIP and Godspeed Luger Nodar Kumaritashvili.

[AirTool]

I wonder how all that would have played out if it had happened on live TV on a big viewing night.

[todda]

I realize that any sport has its issues with safety (i.e. people getting their head through the handle skiing), but I am a bit suprised that in designing that course that no one saw these exposed steel pillars as an issue. I completely agree, it was in extreme poor taste for NBC to show this tragedy.