"looped in"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/19/2013 01:16 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>CNN promises to keep viewers "looped in" to the latest developments.

Perhaps influenced by their using a 5-second delay on contemporaneous
(should I say "real-time"?) filmings?  (As I interpret their implied
reason for such a delay, they want to be able to bowdlerize gruesome
(obscene? blasphemous?) events such as a "blaze of glory".)

Joel

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