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Tough call on airing Glenn 911 tape

4:38 PM Tue, Sep 19, 2006 |

Just before our early newscasts Monday afternoon we received a copy of Hope Glenn's desperate call to a 911 dispatcher. Her son, Lukus, was drunk, breaking windows and threatening to kill himself. I listened to the entire 10 minute call. It was hard to listen to it. Real hard.

We had to make a decision about how much of the call we would use on air and on kgw.com. When we face these journalistic questions, I often gather around severa...