Re: Graphic video

[Keith Berman <RockTheGlobe@rcn.com>]

This was the basis for Filter's breakthrough song, "Hey Man Nice Shot."  As
I understand it, the video for the song contained the actual footage of him
shooting himself, but MTV declined to play it and an edited video was shown
instead.  

> From: "Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>
> A few years ago a major Pennsylvania politician committed suicide by
> shooting himself in the head at a press conference.  All the local TV
> stations and the networks had tape of the incident.  I believe the universal
> decision was to show the tape up to the point that he put the gun to his
> head, but not to show the grisly part of the suicide.  That illustrated the
> story, in a pretty chilling way, without going too far.  Fox showing still
> photos of people falling from the WTC was a similar decision.