February 20, 2012 08:45 PM UTC

Would You Broadcast The Kyle Dyer Dog Bite?

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• by: Colorado Pols

Image via 9NEWS

Diverting from our usual political discussion, Mediabistro’s TVspy blog:

Shortly after a dog bit KUSA anchor Kyle Dyer on-air last week, the station’s news director, Patti Dennis, called up every news director in Denver and implored them not to air footage of the bite.

Dennis told TVSpy last week that she urged her fellow news directors to “show respect” because the video was “traumatic to people at KUSA.”

Despite Dennis’s pleading, one news director, KDVR’s Ed Kosowski, decided to go ahead and air the footage.

Since the incident involving 9NEWS morning host Kyle Dyer earlier this month, the station has been very aggressive in removing uploaded copies of the footage of the dog bite–even though, as Westword pointed out late last week, other 9NEWS footage is easy to find that obviously hasn’t been subject to the same claims of copyright violation. At the same time, many will side with the request by 9NEWS, ignored by FOX 31, to refrain to showing the most graphic moments of this footage–out of “decency,” a desire to not sensationalize, or simple professional courtesy.

Anyway, it’s become a widespread enough topic that we figured a reader poll was in order.

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