CNN sinks to new low, airs interview with Stephen Johns' son

Did anyone else see that just now on CNN? The interview clip of the deceased security guard's son, who looked to be about 9 or 10 years old??? Some camera crew got an interview with the distraught little boy, asking him how he feels, etc.!!! How he feels??? After it aired, the CNN guy (Josh Levs I think) quickly jumped in to say the interview was 'sanctioned' by his mom and step father. So what if it was sanctioned! Don't ask if you can have the interview, or don't accept the offer!!! What is this, another episode of Jon & Kate Plus 8??

:mad:

on edit: And what's more...what if it was the son or daughter of a murdered TV reporter...do you think that child would be subjected to a microphone and TV cameras shoved in their face like that?

news business works.

No morality.

my husband had just been in an explosion at a chemical plant and passed on, and they were at the front door..my dad went out and told them to go away. they dont care.

Seek out a tragedy, find someone directly affected, then stick a camera and mic in their face and ask, "How do you feel?"

Piss-poor "journalism" :grr:

That's why it's done.

If I see a tease for it on the news, I'll watch too.

Just being honest.

life's too short to make a living whoring off other people's misery.

One of the more disgusting aspects of our culture of gee-whiz journalism.

Is why I am Boycotting ALL CNN Advertisers - they are Fomenting Insurrection against law abiding citizens.

It stops Now.

Please join me, spread the word.

My brother was killed in an auto accident in 1989 and it was bad enough that they showed the wreckage of his car on the local news, but fortunately for us no reporters showed up at our door to ask questions. I was walking around in a daze for at least a week after it happened and can only imagine how Johns' son must be feeling right now--what these reporters did was just flat-out shameful.

or 'at 10:00" if you are at Central Time Zone.

And I don't know why we are so tuned to be "on TV" that a bereaved family does not just shut the door in the face of all the microphones and lights and tell them to leave them alone to grieve in private.

And, frankly, this is when we turn off the TV, when someone who suffered a loss starts sobbing in front of the cameras.

I was disgusted too when I heard what CNN had done, but seeing the boy suffering through such a loss might discourage other supremacists from acting this way. Or is that wishful thinking?