In article <011020071225094510%takebackamerica_at_2008.com>,
Audie Murphy's Ghost <takebackamerica_at_2008.com> wrote:
> In article
> <ANIM8Rfsk-B513A4.08213701102007_at_news.phx.highwinds-media.com>,
> Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk_at_cox.net> wrote:
>
> > In article <011020070901245512%takebackamerica_at_2008.com>,
> > Audie Murphy's Ghost <takebackamerica_at_2008.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In article <fdpvv1$dvv$1_at_panix1.panix.com>, William December Starr
> > > <wdstarr_at_panix.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > In article <270920070833593371%takebackamerica_at_2008.com>,
> > > > Audie Murphy's Ghost <takebackamerica_at_2008.com> said:
> > > >
> > > > > Field didn't get bleeped. She was cut off entirely. Katherine
> > > > > Heigl was genuinely bleeped when she said "shit" after her name
> > > > > was announced. There was no interruption of the video.
> > > >
> > > > You mean that lip-readers would have had no doubt what Heigl had
> > > > said? (Genuine question: I wasn't watching the show.)
> > >
> > > There was no doubt at all; even non-lipreaders couldn't have missed it.
> > > I thought it was odd that they'd bleeped her, since she wasn't miked
> > > and I doubt anyone would have heard her, but my guess is they bleeped
> > > her because of the reasonable fear that somebody would *claim* they'd
> > > heard her.
> >
> > Interesting notion.
> > >
> > > > > What hasn't been explained is how they were able to bleep Heigl
> > > > > but not Field, if in fact this was about Field saying "goddamn"
> > > > > and nothing else.
> > > >
> > > > Which event happened first in the broadcast? If it was Heigl then
> > > > it's entirely credible that somebody at the network got on the phone
> > > > right after that and told the producer "Hey, when you bleep somebody
> > > > make sure you kill the video feed too."
> > >
> > > Heigl was indeed first, so maybe you're right.
> >
> > Nope. Everybody got treated the way field did except Heigl.
>
>
> Thanks for correcting the record, BTW. I didn't know about the earlier
> examples.
Sure. I'm sure there were at least 2 before Field, Romano being the
first one. I can't remember what the second was though.
I wonder if Heigl got muted on the east coast? Maybe the 'cut away to
the birds eye view' was done on the fly, and Heigl got through on the
east coast feed but somebody decided to mute her on the west coast feed?
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Received on Mon Oct 01 2007 - 09:43:33 PDT