MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: Athlete’s fight for life broadcast live

During the week I wrote a blog for the paper on the fate of Kevin Ware, the American basketball player who suffered a horrific injury last weekend.

I focused in the blog on some of the wider implications of Ware’s injury but not so much on the impact of seeing the injury.

I haven’t looked it up on YouTube and don’t have any intention of doing so, but it seems to have put one question in particular in the foreground: is it the worst sports injury to be seen on television?