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When Broadcasters and Cops Collide |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / MEDIA IN REVIEW |
| Author: Robert Lissit |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2000 |
| Size: 2,125 Words, 13,549 Characters |
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Ex-convict Hank Earl Carr had shot and killed two Tampa policemen, a highway patrolman, and a small child. He holed up in the gas station with a clerk as a hostage. In a live six-minute interview, Carr told Richards how he had shot the police officers. At the same time, Hernando County Sheriff Thomas Mylander's hostage-negotiating team was trying to establish contact but couldn't immediately get through because of the interview.
"We're going to have to try to get some control," said Mylander, "if they won't control themselves."
WFLA defended the call, but other members of the media condemned it as interference with law enforcement officials. Ethicist Bob Steele of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies said, "To call the gas station at the height of the crisis is totally unjustified...
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...round comes around, and it's inevitable that the pendulum will swing back toward reporters. Police, after all, are just as capable as journalists of committing monumental blunders. Volatile hostage situations lead to questionable decisionmaking on both sides.Due to the high visibility of hostage situations, the viewing and reading public will be able to keep score on which sharks are winning.
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