No more

An open letter to TSN, Sportsnet, The Score, etc. Please stop showing Richard Zednik's horrific throat injury from February 10th in SUPERSLOW HI-DEF OVER AND OVER. Show it once and move on. At best, the ubiquitous replays are Sweeney Todd On Ice, graphic and cringe-worthy but fortunately without consequence. At worst, they're intentionally exploitive, catering to fringe elements of our society who're captivated by real-life gore and violence. I'm not comparing Zednik's cut throat to the Daniel Pearl video, just protesting the rationale that leads sports highlight programs to show the incident three and four times, from different angles, in frame-by-frame slow motion. I'll watch stylized ultra-violent movies with anyone, I'd just rather not see sports injuries subjected to the same kind of glorificating editing treatment.