Dokoupil said he tried to get away from the pack and knock on doors in one case, he came upon someone close to a child who died who helped arrange an interview with her parents. Tony Dokoupil of CBS News was told to get on a plane to Texas. Sometimes there’s little time to prepare. She didn’t want her face to appear on camera to divert attention from her daughter. CNN reported on what the girl said, but didn’t show her or play her voice.Īna Rodriguez, who lost her daughter Maite in the shooting, sat at her dining room table to tell The Associated Press about how the girl aspired to become a marine biologist. She praised CNN for sensitively handling the interview of a young survivor of the shooting who smeared herself in the blood of a dead classmate to appear dead.
Most interviews on the street indicate this work hasn’t been done people in shock and trauma, she said, shouldn’t have to make an on-the-spot decision about dealing with a reporter. Kelly McBride, an expert on journalism ethics at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, advises news organizations to better prepare when assigned to these stories.
“It’s really valid for people in that community to feel overwhelmed and resentful,” said Mayer, the director of Trusting News, which helps members of the media improve their relationship with the public. In general, journalists do a poor job explaining what they do and a poor job putting themselves in the shoes of the people they are interviewing, many on the worst day of their lives, said Joy Mayer, a former journalism professor. One parent who lost a child in Newtown saw someone outside her home with a camera peering into a window, said Monsignor Robert Weiss of the town’s St. The sensitivity that most journalists try to bring to such assignments can be undermined by those who stick cameras in the faces of people crying, or ask a grieving parent how it feels. It felt hurtful … At the same time, there were members of the media who were so thoughtful, caring and compassionate.” “At first, I was angry,” said Gay, co-founder and executive director of Safe and Sound Schools, an advocacy group. Gay said she had no idea of the extent of attention given to the story until the state trooper assigned to protect her family drove them around town to see the memorials. “You are really not in a state of mind to be offering your feelings in front of the camera.”
“When you are at the epicenter of a situation like that, you really do need protection,” said Michele Gay, who lost her daughter Josephine in the Newtown school shooting a decade ago. “We’ll look back at the photos you take and appreciate it.” “Thank you for documenting this tragedy,” he said. Yet there are also people like Ben Gonzalez, who approached reporters near the mortuary after hearing the woman lash out to say that she doesn’t speak for everyone. A group called “Guardians of the Children” blocked camera views, often with the encouragement of police. One female journalist was told, “I hope your entire family dies in a massacre.” Some are threatened with arrest for trespassing while on public property. Is it possible to do it better, to co-exist within a moment no one wants to be part of? Journalists are called upon to explain what happened, and sometimes to ask uncomfortable questions in places where many people want to be left alone to grieve. Columbine, Sandy Hook, now Uvalde, Texas - the list of places synonymous with horrible mass killings keeps growing. When tragedy comes to town in the 21st century, the media follows, focusing the world’s eyes on a community during its most difficult hours. “Y’all are the scum of the Earth,” said one woman, surveying the cameras. NEW YORK (AP) - As a knot of journalists stood across from a mortuary witnessing a funeral for a child killed in the Uvalde school massacre, some people passing by didn’t disguise their anger.
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