ABSTRACT
Overall, the broadcast raised many issues that parallel controversy over televising executions. Goodman notes that many opposed the broadcast on the grounds that showing a real
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person being killed on television "offends respect for privacy, dignity, good taste and other values common to decent folIc" (1998: E2). The author notes, however, that 60 Minutes was doing the journalist's, "which is to say the educator's job" of making people confront a lifeand-death issue (ibid.). Indeed, he argues that "in a field where mindlessness rules, a program with serious content is protested because it goes uncomfortably deep" (ibid.).
