Should Live TV really be live?

Should live TV news be live?

I was very interested (and saddened) to see the news article about a man in Arizona who committed suicide after a police chase.  Fox then accidentally showed the moment live on TV where the man shot himself in the head committing suicide.

It appears that normal safeguards in place to prevent this kind of footage failed due to human error.

This poses for me two very interesting questions.

• The first being should live news be actually show live without any buffering?  

• Secondly, if live police chases are going to be used by networks for both entertainment and to provide a short-term ratings spike should they be shown in their full entirety with no editing?  

I have not seen a live police chase on TV, the closest I came to it was the 24 hour footage of the man hunt of Derek Bird in 2010.  Watching a police chase as entertainment poses moral questions about if we should be watching it in the first place.

What do you think? Should live TV really be live?

Bad Piggies - review

I don’t play many computer games - I am definitely not a gamer….

But I do love Angry Birds and all the other Angry Birds spin off’s

So I was very excited this week to download Bad Piggies for the iPad. Bad Piggies is a Physics-based cartoon style game where you have to build special carts and vehicles to move piggies through a course collecting stars to a finish line.  The game play is relatively simple and in the early stages there are lots of hints to help you design the vehicle.

My eight year old son seems to be hooked on this and loves it even more than Angry Birds.

Some people are suggesting that Bad Piggies is much harder to play than Angry Birds and that this might put off the casual gamer but I am not sure.

Here’s to Bad Piggies!

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