Tookie, Tookie, Tookie

“Executions, having become fairly routine around America, aren’t normally televised as audience-participation events, but this one had all the trimmings,” Paul Brownfield writes in a review of Tookie coverage. He complains that B-roll of Tookie “ran on cable all day and night without context — for all that the anchors talked I never once heard any of them place these images in time. They just threw the imagery up there as an endless loop, until you were nauseous from them. Nauseated and/or numb.” More…