News coverage shows restraint with limited Saddam footage

December 31, 2006 What appeared to be a cell phone video emerged Saturday afternoon from the scene of Saddam Hussein's execution, with some U.S. networks running some of the video but exercising restraint. Fox News Channel was the first to run shortly after 4 p.m. EST Saturday the grainy, shaky video, which includes another angle of the hanging and also audio of sometimes testy exchanges between Hussein, his executioners and witnesses as the former dictator was led to the gallows. The video was later uploaded to APTN, the Associated Press' video news service, which made it available to every network.

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