Exploiting a Person’s Personal Pain in an Interview is Wrong

Bode Miller

Bode Miller

As much as emotion makes for good TV and radio (including web multimedia), interviewers should not exploit personal pain or tragedy just to get rating points, listeners, and viewers.

I won’t show the example in this article.  That would just make me guilty of exploitation too.  But here’s the story to understand what the interviewers did:

Read More (Slate)

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/fivering_circus/2014/02/olympics_rage_o_meter_nbc_makes_bode_miller_cry_then_presses_on_and_on_and.html
 

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