History Main / DeadlineNews

* Spike Milligan once did a sketch in which a newsreader announcing the results of a prize draw realises that ''he'' has the winning number, and frantically searches his pockets for his ticket.

A subtrope of ApocalypticLog, and IgnoredVitalNewsReports. Not related to SpinningPaper.

** Al Michaels, during Game 3 of the 1989 World Series at San Francisco's Candlestick Park just as the Loma Prieta earthquake hit the Bay Area: "I'll tell you what, we're having an earth-"

*** In the episode "Beware the Creeper", of ''TheNewBatmanAdventures'', Joker interrupts a special news program about him by gassing the crew. Then, he takes the news anchor, dumps him into a vat of chemicals (twice), blows him up, and lets the whole vat drain into the river. The anchor survived, but, needless to say, he wasn't exactly sane after that experience.

* AlJazeera lost several reporters during the [[ArabIsraeliConflict Second Intifada]], some of which were recording at the time. Since reporters are required to give their locations to the IDF, the already-Israeli-critical network took it [[ItsPersonal deeply personally]] when some of those deaths were caused by IDF strikes. Like [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement ''everything'']] relating to the ArabIsraeliConflict, this is a case where YourMileageMayVary.

* AlJazeera lost several reporters during the [[ArabIsraeliWar Second Intifada]], some of which were recording at the time. Since reporters are required to give their locations to the IDF, the already-Israeli-critical network took it [[ItsPersonal deeply personally]] when some of those deaths were caused by IDF strikes. Like [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement ''everything'']] relating to the ArabIsraeliWar, this is a case where YourMileageMayVary.

* ''DeadLikeMe'' features the death of a newscaster when a captive bear gets loose. [[Spoiler:Subverted--him wetting himself in fear while standing by a power socket kills him before the bear gets close enough.]]

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUZeN1gcP4s Here's a clip]] of a 2004 tornado that goes right past a Salt Lake City news studio during its live report.

-->"In keeping with Channel 40's policy of [[IfItBleedsItLeads bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first -- attempted suicide."

* On July 15, 1974, chronically depressed [[OnlyInFlorida Sarasota, Florida]] anchorwoman [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck Christine Chubbuck]] shot herself in the head during a live {{news broadcast}}.
-->[[FamousLastWords "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first -- attempted suicide."]]

** Is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSOsskpf8r0&feature=related this]] what you're referring to? Reporters standing too close to the action and getting hurt is fairly common, or, at least, they're fairly easy to find. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtrDMaUpPEU&feature=related Case]] in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21A7-1SFRtQ&feature=PlayList&p=1EC5B7DC41541158&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=16 point]].

** And [[http://www.theonion.com/video/in-the-know-has-halloween-become-overcommercialize,14284/ this one.]]

* Reality TV variant: In ''WorldWarZ'', a mansionfull of celebrities, hired mercenary guards and cameramen insist on broadcasting a real-time running account of their efforts to survive the ZombieApocalypse. Subverted in that they're overrun, not by zombies, but by hordes of panicked civilians who saw the broadcast and realized the mansion offered a potential refuge from the undead.

* In a news report on NineEleven a reporter, standing a few blocks from 7 World Trade Center, was reporting that the fire department had cleared out of the building fearing that its collapse was imminent... during this report, the building indeed collapsed, and the reporter found himself running from a cloud of smoke and debris.
** Anderson Cooper, reporting on Hurricane Dennis, was almost decapitated when a piece of aluminum siding suddenly broke off in the wind and flew straight at him. He managed to get out of the way.
** A weather reporter is reporting on a torrential rainstorm with lightning and thunder, the whole bit, when suddenly there's a flash and the camera dissolves to static for two seconds before cutting back to the confused anchors. The weatherlady was ''struck by lightning''. Worst of all, this is ''played for laughs'' on a comedy show about the funniest moments in television (she survived, but retired).

** One Braves game radio broadcast had a sequence something like this: "He hits a foul ball, and it's heading into the -" CRASH! "It's between your feet, Skip."

* An oldie but a goodie: the incredible 1983 tv-movie "Special Bulletin" was done in the form of live news coverage of a nuclear terrorist incident. As the IMDb plot summary puts it, "A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isn't met." After many tense hours, with the hostage news reporter broadcasting his story live. an army unit successfuly swarms the tugboat and captures the bad guys. The reporter chooses to see the story to the end, broadcasting from the dock while technicians work to disarm the bomb. They, uh, fail. Yup, nuclear detonation on U.S. soil, ''after'' the crisis was supposed to be over. A bit later, the news network establishes contact with a reporter who was at the impromptou media center across the bay and we get to see what her camerman had recorded: a room full of people just hanging out waiting for someone to come in and give them an official statement, then white-out, then after a secod or so the camera recovers from the overload and shows a view of the room and people on fire, and then the shockwave arrives and the only good thing about it is that it puts out the fire.

* A cutscene in the first ''RatchetAndClank'' shows robot reporter Darla Gratch reporting on slime aliens attacking a major city. The report ends just as one of the monsters sneaks up on her and attacks her.