Twice as violent

Analysis:

Here is another example of gratuitous violence passing off as a news story. It doesn’t matter that the news anchor warns viewers before they run the footage, because this story has no relevance to the West Michigan Community. The video footage is from a home video and viewers should ask themselves how a TV station in Los Angeles got it and then how it wound up on WZZM 13. In addition it should be mentioned that channel 13 shows viewers the clip of someone getting run over by a car 2 times.

Story:

WZZM 13 News reader – A man survived having a car run over him in a California yard. A warning the following video may be disturbing to some, but the man is OK. Police say a drunk driver ran into another car in Los Angeles. He gunned his engine and then turned into a yard running over a man who was just standing there. Amazingly, as we said, the guy run over only had a few bumps and bruises. He said he avoided serious injury by rolling with the car that passed over him. Police arrested the driver for driving under the influence.

Total Time – 29 seconds