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Posted At : May 8, 2009 10:00 AM | Posted By : D McKee
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A week after the demise of Strip entertainer Danny Gans, fissures are starting to appear in the cone of silence that's enshrouded his untimely exit from this vale of tears -- and let's just say it's not pretty. The Las Vegas Review-Journal is hamstrung by a potential conflict of interest because its book-publishing arm is slated to bring out Gans' memoirs, but the Las Vegas Sun has been less circumspect and the blogosphere is buzzing like bees. Already, war has broken out between two cyber-journalists and things promise to only get worse.
What do you think? Would you care to read a boiled-down summary of "The Investigation So Far" (as TNT reruns of Law & Order bill their mid-episode recaps) or is it better to remain aside from the fray? My mind keeps looping an unanswerably pithy aphorism: "Don't touch shit with gloves. The gloves get shittier, the shit doesn't get glovier."
Speaking of Law & Order, habitual viewers of TV crime dramas (like myself) got a salutary dash of reality via the Gans post morterms. You know how Lt. Van Buren used to be able to "get the tox screen" in a matter of hours? The toxicology report on the unfortunate Mr. Gans will not be complete for weeks to come, supposedly. And "Las Vegas" on CSI looks remarkably like the residential parts of Burbank, come to think of it.
On the lighter side, be sure an check out today's "Question of the Day," involving a robotic version of comedian Foster Brooks that once inhabited MGM Grand 2.0 (i.e., the lion's-mouth version). It's a strange story, even by Vegas standards, but it's only available today. We're working on ways to put the whole QoD archive online ... honest Injun. It's just taking a while.
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I'm a fan of Law & Order, too - but I have to "suspend belief" when it comes to the quickness of the tox reports, and lab reports, and post-mortems too. I figure they have to compress some stuff in order to fit the whole case into an hour show.
When I read news reports of actual crimes, though, I keep seeing statements like "Final toxicology test results will not be available for _____ weeks". That sounds more like the real world, where labs (public & private) have to handle many cases at once. I don't think the lack of instant reports means there's any "conspiracy" in the Gans case.
What raises my eyebrows, though, are those TV shows whose law enforcement folks all have access to the best, most powerful, feature-rich computer systems right on their desktops - with high-speed internet access to everything on the Web.
I remember reading an LA Times story about a year ago that at some FBI (FBI, mind you) offices, agents who want to check out info relating to terrorism cases have to go down the street to public libraries to use online computers.