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Why do they do this?

LilacTree — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 18:59:54 GMT

If your child, or another loved one, was killed by a shooter, would you go on TV only to be asked how you feel about it? They're doing it right now on CNN with parents of the boy who died at school. A man came to kill his ex-wife and then shoot himself. He also shot two students, one of whom died.

I muted it. What purpose is it, other than to exploit or sensationalize? This was not a terrorist attack, this was a domestic issue.

I would never go public if something like that happened to my loved one, in this case, my child.

Would you?

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Big Joanie — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:04:21 GMT

I would not even be able to speak ....

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makena — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:05:08 GMT

I don't see myself doing it. It would be too much of a personal thing for me and I would probably be consumed with too much grief.

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Tinkrbl44 — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:05:09 GMT

@LilacTree

I see that same question all the time, on both local and national news.

It must be something reporters are told to lead with, to get the person talking. If someone I knew had just been shot, I wouldn't feel anything immediately. I think I would be totally numb with shock and disbelief. "This really can't be happening .... "

JMO

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deepwaterdotter — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:06:45 GMT

It doesn't sound like anything I would want or be able to do. Maybe the news networks pay big money to the parents for this type of interview?

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Zhills — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:12:39 GMT

My biggest "pet peeve" with TV! DRAMA???

Or stick the camera in the face of a kicker who just missed a fieldgoal, people who just lost a relative in an accident or lost their pets in a house fire.

Sometimes MEDIA gets plain crazy!

Re: Why do they do this?

LilacTree — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:13:21 GMT

@deepwaterdotter wrote:
It doesn't sound like anything I would want or be able to do. Maybe the news networks pay big money to the parents for this type of interview?

@deepwaterdotter

OMG that would be even worse. To do it for money? Maybe the parents get some kind of "closure" out of this? (I dislike that word so much . . . I don't think one can ever get over something like this.)

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fourpaws56 — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:13:23 GMT

no...I don't even want to think such a horric event

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lolakimono — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:14:58 GMT

I think people go on TV to remind others that their loss was not "collateral damage", but a victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and to shed light on that person's character so they don't fade away in the "bigger" news stories that are likely to develop.

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Cakers3 — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:15:42 GMT

Why they do this is a personal choice.

And I seriously doubt they were paid mega-$$ to do so.

My heart goes out to them-and I'll leave their decision in their own hands.

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eddyandme — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:19:52 GMT

IMHO CNN is equal to those rags at the supermarket checkout!!!!!

Re: Why do they do this?

LilacTree — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:21:46 GMT

@Tinkrbl44 wrote:
@LilacTree

I see that same question all the time, on both local and national news.

It must be something reporters are told to lead with, to get the person talking. If someone I knew had just been shot, I wouldn't feel anything immediately. I think I would be totally numb with shock and disbelief. "This really can't be happening .... "

JMO

@Tinkrbl44

Exactly how I would feel. I would be too devastated. I remember when 9/11 happened. Very few family members were interviewed. It was mostly firefighters and police who had lost members of their precincts. And they were mostly in shock.

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Noel7 — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:22:20 GMT

@LilacTree

I just saw the interview on CNN and if we were watching the same one, it was the parents of the child who was shot but survived.

Not the parents of the deceased.

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LilacTree — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:24:57 GMT

@Noel7 wrote:
@LilacTree

I just saw the interview on CNN and if we were watching the same one, it was the parents of the child who was shot but survived.

Not the parents of the deceased.

@Noel7

That's how quickly I muted it and stopped watching it. I guess that's more acceptable. But they do it all the time with the parents of victims too.

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Noel7 — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:25:19 GMT

@LilacTree

Was it a black couple? The mom was on our right wearing an olive color top?

If so, IT WAS THE PARENTS OF THE SURVIVING CHILD.

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LilacTree — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:28:28 GMT

@Noel7 wrote:
@LilacTree

Was it a black couple? The mom was on our right wearing an olive color top?

If so, IT WAS THE PARENTS OF THE SURVIVING CHILD.

@Noel7

I believe you and still wouldn't have watched it.

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Noel7 — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:28:36 GMT

@LilacTree wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
@LilacTree

I just saw the interview on CNN and if we were watching the same one, it was the parents of the child who was shot but survived.

Not the parents of the deceased.
@Noel7
That's how quickly I muted it and stopped watching it. I guess that's more acceptable. But they do it all the time with the parents of victims too.

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@LilacTree

Our posts crossed

That mother had worked with the teacher as a teacher's aid and they knew each other well. Much of what she said was about the teacher and that they were good friends.

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qualitygal — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:29:12 GMT

The first time I heard a reporter ask that question, of parents who'd just lost a child, I was so mad, I yelled back at the t.v., the stupid reporter that is, on just how he thought they'd feel. All I can think is they are so anxious to be the FIRST to report, they lose their minds and no longer have brains in action. How callous.

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LilacTree — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:31:45 GMT

@qualitygal wrote:
The first time I heard a reporter ask that question, of parents who'd just lost a child, I was so mad, I yelled back at the t.v., the stupid reporter that is, on just how he thought they'd feel. All I can think is they are so anxious to be the FIRST to report, they lose their minds and no longer have brains in action. How callous.

@qualitygal

I agree. And I usually defend the media. But I hate such interviews and never watch them.

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goldensrbest — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:32:24 GMT

I think they just need attention brought to light that their baby was killed by someone, that was their child , and when a parent has a child die they are in the lowest place any human can be,don't judge them, they may be hanging on by a thin thread.