In Mobile, AL there's controversy over whether a TV reporter staged a scene involving a shrine to four dead kids. By the way, Mike McCormick, the news director quoted in the story, is an SIU grad.
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Wow! Staging news. That sounds like a desperate move to me. Trying to tell a story at the expense of the death of four children is sickening. I don't see anything wrong with having a memorial if you would have talked about it in a prior cast and asked for voulnteers in setting it up, and getting the families' approval. To do that stuff on your own just to tell a story is a disgrace.
It's funny how people do what they think is a potentially harmless good deed and then manage to piss off everyone in good intentions. However it is kind of overkill to build a memorial if you're not personally connected to a tragedy. This proves that good intentions can never bypass proper professional protocol.
Doing something like creating a shrine, just to tell a story, is very sad. What's sad about this loss of credibility is that the person could probably have received great feedback and good intentions from people wanting a genuine memorial. People do strange stuff to get a story, but staging that is just not ethical.
I can't believe that someone would even think about staging the news. Don't they realize that the truth will prevail? As cheesy as that sounds, I just think it would be very difficult to get away with staging something like a memorial, because normally the reporter would interview someone who helped make it, and many times they even film the making of it. If this really was staged, I think this person should lose his job because this would be so unethical!
What?! Who would even really think about staging this? This is what the news has come to?
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