Should the journalist who did the TV ambush interview recently in Texas be fired?
Watch this clip and decide for yourself:
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=6905
Arlecia Simmons, a Ph.D. candidate at the GREAT University of Iowa, sent this clip to me.
Arlecia is a graduate of WU (mass comm./journalism major).
She may be coming back to Winthrop to take my place when the old guy checks out.
4 comments:
First, I want to say that as I watched the video I was messing around with the temple on my head when I moved something (don't know what, a vein?) and now it's all I can think about.
As to the question, "Are TV ambush interviews ethical?", I really don't know. I suppose that it all depends on how the reporter goes about the ambush, and who he is ambushing.
The reporter in the video obviously went about things completely wrong, by confronting a 70 year old WWII vet and asking him if he was trigger happy and was shooting to kill, after his home had been invaded twice and he had to do something that most people don't try to do.
There was another ambush reporter featured on The Daily Show, who ambushed a guy who had been caught looking at porn in a library. First of all, the story shouldn't be so important that it would go on the local news, and then of course the person who did it is obviously extremely embarrassed already and putting him on camera is a pretty horrible thing to do.
The Daily Show got back at the reporter, however, by ambushing him and asking embarrassing questions. It was epic.
Thanks for reading and responding. My blog entry on the ambush interview obviously struck a nerve (or whatever) with you. Hope others share their comments, too.
And watch out for those ambushes!
The reporter did seem to go a bit out of line for this interview. By blocking the man's door it seemed she was forcing question after question upon this man.
Obviously he was still upset about the whole situation and to me, the reporter's remarks were too harsh ("trigger happy").
Trigger happy--interesting way to put it, Deni.
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