This week NBC New was forced to interrupt a feature report by Tom Brokaw on some garbage about health with breaking news: that the world was ready for porn on a major news network, and in Phoenix, Arizona, no less.

Viewers of a news show broadcast on a Phoenix-area cable television station received a lot more than news hard-core pornography started streaming into their living rooms, replacing a health show featuring former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw.

The incident on KPPX-TV Monday night prompted a flood of calls to local news media outlets and cable provider Cox Communications, including one from Chandler resident Brenda Schodt, who said she was shocked to look up and see graphic sex acts on her television screen.

Unfortunately, the incident was not an act of God but the work of a stealthy human saboteur hell bent on introducing the world to quality programming. This hero has disappeared back into the shadows but media network ION Television is investigating the possibility that the act was performed internally.

ON Television, which operates KPPX, called the problem "an act of human sabotage" at its station.

"We have launched a rigorous investigation, and any implicated employees will face strict disciplinary action and termination," ION Media Networks spokeswoman Leslie Monreal said in a prepared statement.

Since the incident more people are watching the news and actually paying attention, becoming personally involved in regional and national issues. The world is a better place.

That last part is a lie. But wouldn't it be great if porn saved us?

scylis

USA

November 2004

MAR 18, 2007 10:09 PM

i'd never get that lucky. if someone did it while i was watching the news, i bet i'd get stuck with scat or clowns, or something.

toothpickmoe

Los Angeles, CA

May 2004

MAR 18, 2007 10:12 PM

Wait...porn hasn't saved us?

wipis

Lambertville, NJ

February 2006

MAR 18, 2007 10:14 PM

Reminds me of hearing about a professor who put slides of nude women into his presentations to keep peoples attention. Needless to say some women were offended.

Tallboy66

Chicago, IL

January 2005

MAR 18, 2007 10:17 PM

Still gets me that they can show pictures of bloody people, dead children, etc... but sex is disgusting.

sugar_on_asphalt

Dekalb, IL

June 2003

MAR 18, 2007 10:20 PM

Shades of Tyler Durden...

handsome_rob

Burlington, IA

May 2004

MAR 18, 2007 10:20 PM

does anyone else reslize that this type of thing hasn't happened since november 22, 1987?

an historic moment in piracy!

this happened in chicago twice in one night:

SouGei

Blackwood, NJ

January 2007

MAR 18, 2007 10:27 PM

huhhuh...Cox....

SinnFein

Phoenix, AZ

December 2002

MAR 18, 2007 10:30 PM

and i missed it

BlueClearSky

Austin, TX

January 2007

MAR 18, 2007 10:33 PM

OMG, the video of that Chicago incident scares the crap out of me every time I see it!

Jaylin

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

MAR 18, 2007 10:48 PM

Project Mayhem lives on.

*sweet*

Malesbian

Tucson, AZ

December 2005

MAR 18, 2007 10:59 PM

Thanks for the Chicago video. I didn't need to sleep anymore anyway.

Geisterfaust

Tempe, AZ

June 2006

MAR 18, 2007 11:00 PM

I wonder what i was doing when i could've been watching porn on basic cable. Fucking errands.

doolittle

Mesa, AZ

December 2004

MAR 18, 2007 11:13 PM

Comus said:
I wonder what i was doing when i could've been watching porn on basic cable. Fucking errands.

seriously, i wish i had caught that!

AshcanRantings

San Francisco, CA

January 2007

MAR 18, 2007 11:30 PM

wipis said:
Reminds me of hearing about a professor who put slides of nude women into his presentations to keep peoples attention. Needless to say some women were offended.

My psychology professor last year also taught the Human Sexuality class, and during his lectures just for fuck's sake (pun not intended) he'd show us porn clips that he used for "educatonal purposes" in the sexuality class. It was the best hour and fifty minutes of institutionally regulated crude nudity ever.

On topic: I think the news needs to be hacked a bit more frequently.

Valeyard

Shreveport, LA

January 2005

MAR 18, 2007 11:55 PM

That saboteur is a hero in my book

RudieCantFail

Baton Rouge, LA

January 2006

MAR 19, 2007 12:06 AM

wipis said:
Reminds me of hearing about a professor who put slides of nude women into his presentations to keep peoples attention. Needless to say some women were offended.

That was the only class I ever got an A+ in.

private_grave

Belgium

April 2005

MAR 19, 2007 12:35 AM

Dana_Mayhem said:
Shades of Tyler Durden...

Jaylin said:
Project Mayhem lives on.

All the way.

OnesandZeros

Cuyahoga Falls, OH

March 2004

MAR 19, 2007 12:41 AM

I would have just been happy for free porn.....

Dark_Templar

Auburn, CA

June 2004

MAR 19, 2007 01:37 AM

Thats almost as bad as watching a porn and having the news come on ............

SineFato

Garden Grove, CA

January 2007

MAR 19, 2007 03:07 AM

where do we put in our vote to give the sabatour a medal of honor?

KMFCM

Peekskill, NY

September 2002

MAR 19, 2007 04:04 AM

that's fucking excellent

and that chicago vid
MAX HEADROOM!!!!!!?!?!??!!

noirkiss3

Minneapolis, MN

April 2006

MAR 19, 2007 05:24 AM

could someone explain the Chicago thing?

noirkiss3

Minneapolis, MN

April 2006

MAR 19, 2007 05:25 AM

noirkiss3 said:
could someone explain the Chicago thing?

Thanks WIKI

diablusx

Afghanistan

May 2004

MAR 19, 2007 05:37 AM

I just think it is interesting that you can show scenes of violence but you show one act of nature that does not involve an animal and people freak out.

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