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TV Station Employee Fired Over Porn In Newscast

March 24, 2007 01:33 PM CST

A Phoenix television station fired an employee suspected of inserting pornography into a broadcast of a news show featuring former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw.

The unnamed worker for ION Media Networks' KPPX-TV "was immediately terminated and faces further legal action" after an investigation determined who was responsible for the March 12 incident, spokeswoman Leslie Monreal said in a statement.

Palm Beach, Fla.-based ION Media Networks, which offers family-friendly programs, called the incident "an intolerable act of human sabotage" and apologized to viewers. About 30 seconds of porn was inserted into the broadcast.

Monreal said in a statement released late last week that the images of sex acts only appeared in the Phoenix market.

The images prompted a flood of calls to local news media outlets and the cable television provider.

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Whatever! It's only porn!

Whatever! It's only porn!

Yes....and only about 30 seconds at that....

but you know how prude Americans are when it comes to tv.

Um, I'll take exception to the "it's only porn" statement.

We don't need to go into the proven psychological effects porn has on people and society as a whole, let's just talk about the fact that children as young as 5 or 7 could have been watching the show, and see such disgusting displays. 12- and 13-year-olds also could have seen the telecast.

It's not only porn. It's porn during a family-friendly show on a family-friendly station.

And as for the American/prude comment, I actually believe Americans are growing to desensitized because more and more people use that expression, but to paraphrase Lucy on "7th Heaven," The world wouldn't implode if "a lot more people were Conservative."