MEDIA: And now the (ick, yuck) news

  Snacking on my morning bagel and Fox (5) earlier this week brought a little surprise — the anchors' own surprise. Is anybody home in the Fox 5 control booth?
  On "Fox 5 News Live in Las Vegas," anchors Jason Feinberg and Monica Jackson were doing voice-over narration for a story about a Henderson woman who robbed a PetSmart, fled to a nearby gas station and took a woman hostage before she was apprehended. Pretty standard stuff until the camera caught the handcuffed woman —  slumped, dazed expression, vacant, half-mast eyes and most vividly, blood caked around her cheeks and jaw — standing next to police officers in custody.
  Those of us still digesting our bageI weren't the only startled viewers.
  "Is that HER?" Jackson asked.
  "Whoa!" Feinberg chimed in, helpfully adding: "She doesn't look good there."
  Awkward pause ... then Feinberg recovered and resumed narrating.
  Newscasters surprised by their own news report? In a breaking news situation with live images flying by — OK, maybe. But in a taped piece? Had the director or producer stepped outside for a cinnamon danish? A little heads-up in their earpieces might have eliminated that strange moment that reduced Jackson and Feinberg from authoritative newscasters to flustered viewers.
  Luckily, this image wasn't excessively icky. But what if something more upsetting was about to flash onscreen, calling for a disclaimer that an upcoming image might be especially graphic?
  At least then we could put down the bagel before it comes back up.