Sometimes these kinds of wounds are totally self-inflicted or easily preventable.
 
I remember a few years ago posting to a previous SOWNY incarnation a .jpg off the TV screen of a CTV noon newscast. The reporter was doing a live hit (so no tape to throw to) during a story that had nothing whatsoever to do with a Bell union on strike against the company.
 
Apparently, the strikers found out where the sat truck was and showed up. As the woman reporter was doing her spiel, she had no idea that a guy was walking behind her with a giant picket sign that clearly read “Bell Unfair To Employees.”
 
There was nowhere for the director to go, so they had to stay on that shot for what must have seemed forever while the reporter finished her stand-up.
 
Then there’s the tale that a friend of mine who used to work for the old CityPulse told me. If you remember that newscast, one of the features on the late show was that they’d send a camera to some club somewhere, get a few minutes of some singer or group playing and then air a bit of it as part of their Entertainment package, a sort of 'who’s on stage in the city tonight' package.
 
If you’ve never worked in TV news, you may not know that many of the control room people aren’t actually watching what’s going out on screen once a report or tape is successfully playing. The director is often busy trying to figure out the next few shots, the production assistant is adding up how short or long the show is, the technical director is making sure he has the next source ready, and the producer is sometimes on the phone talking to editing about whether the next piece will be ready in time.
 
And so it was that a singer, now long forgotten to history, is on stage in some trendy downtown club being shown on City TV news wearing a T-shirt with a plainly visible message. “Cool As Fuck,” it read in blazingly visible green letters.
 
This went out over the air for at least 50 seconds before anyone actually noticed. They finally cut away but by then it had been on screen for what felt like hours. How it got by the editors is anyone’s guess.
 
Worse yet, they’d planned to use that footage as their end credits!
 
Language and standards have changed a lot since those days and you can get away with a lot more. But as my friend told me, “that’s the kind of thing that could only happen at City in those days!”
 
Oddly, no one in the audience seemed to care and he told me they didn’t receive a single complaint about the offensive word on the phones.   

The FACT that the sign was accurate and correct must have had some bearing on its being broadcast to the masses.  He's a "silly Bunt" indeed!!!  2 guesses as to who was involved at 'this' end in terms of the money laundering.  Give us a B!!!  Give us a U!!!  Give us an N!!!  Give us a T!!!  What's that spell?  45!!!  Louder!!!  45!!!  LOUDER!!!  45!!!!!

it's times like this, that I know why I hang out with you guys and gals.*

*not to jinx anything, knock on wood etc.