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		Q U O T E--O F--T H E--D A Y News is news “It's part of the unfortunate danger of live television. When you have a guy with a shotgun in the back of his pickup and the freeway closed, that's a news story.” -- Larry Peret, news director at Los Angeles television station KCBS, explaining why his station broadcast live a man committing suicide on the freeway. News helicopters hovered overhead for more than an hour as the man petted his dog and talked on the phone. They didn't cut away when he lit himself, his dog and his truck on fire and shot himself in the head. Quoted by the Associated Press. SALON | May 4, 1998