Last evening an 8 year old boy and his friend snuck up to the roof to play. He fell off the roof and died. At 5AM Fox News is at this boy’s door “interviewing” the distraught and barely coherent mother.
Back the fuck up, channel 5! This isn’t groundbreaking news. You don’t need to ‘be the first’ with this story. Why do we need to see this blubbering woman so early in the morning? Why are you in her face less than 6 hours after her eight year old son died to ask her “How do you feel?”
I’m writing FOX 5 and telling them how disgusted I am.
I don’t know who decided that making people cry and asking them “how did X make you feel” when the answer is obviously “awful” is part of journalism. It’s trashy and incredibly annoying.
It’s just part of the general trend towards vicarious living… living your life through others, the quite ludicrous hysteria regarding so-called ‘celebrities’ for instance.
Actually, if they have a web address you could send your fellow Dopers to so we could get contact info, too…this kind of thing sickens me, and I work in media…
So, uh, was she, like, pissed that her kid was dead? 'Cause my mom was pissed when I fell off a roof and died. After she resurrected me using black magic, I got a stern lecture … and I was grounded for a month!