“This will not be easy for anyone,” CNN anchor Erin Burnett said before playing the footage for the network’s audience. In addition to airing the footage, news anchors described in clear-eyed terms to viewers what the video showed. In such cases, often a decision is made to run the graphic footage in an uncensored manner for a limited time, before later airing more limited clips of the incident. Just hours before the release of the Nichols footage, graphic video capturing the grisly attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was also released to the public. “We had no idea what that was going to look like and that should have had a warning and a graphic warning before we showed it and then on screen,” Faulkner said.

Source: CNN January 28, 2023 19:48 UTC