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http://channels.netscape.ca/entertainment/article.adp?i... BBC to Time-Delay Live Sensitive News
LONDON (AP) - The BBC will introduce a time delay for live broadcasts of sensitive news events such as the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States and the school massacre in Beslan, Russia, the company said Thursday.
The several-second delay will allow editors time to cut scenes deemed too shocking, the broadcaster said.
British Broadcasting Corp. management said was instituting the delay after complaints about its live coverage of the graphic events during the Beslan school takeover in September.
All major news broadcasters reported live from the scene of the hostage crisis, in which more than 300 people died. Cameras were rolling as bloodied hostages, many of them children, fled the school.
The BBC's new editorial guidelines stipulate: "A delay must be installed when broadcasting live coverage of sensitive and challenging events such as the school siege at Beslan."
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