USA media goes live from California suspects’ home; criticised
“This is CRAZY.” “Ethics went out the window when media mobbed the San Bernardino shooters’ apartment”, Mashable said adding that media circus crossed an ethical line.
In a slightly sickening development to the already nauseating story of the San Bernardino, California mass shooting journalists stormed the apartment of the alleged perpetrators and began rifling through their possessions on Wednesday.
“MSNBC and other news organizations were invited into the home by the landlord after law enforcement officials had finished examining the site and returned control to the landlord”, the network said, in a statement.
News outlets like MSNBC, CNN, BBC and CBS news broadcast live scenes as their crews poured into the apartment.
Still, Sanders said NBC News did not pay for access to the apartment and that Miller allowed NBC in because he didn’t “have anything to hide”. Let’s not replace them with mob justice and angry irresponsibility. The broadcast showed everything from photos of unidentified children to baby items to IDs and social security cards. David Bowdich, assistant Federal Bureau of Investigation director in charge of the Los Angeles office, said multiple pieces of evidence has proven the case should be viewed as a possible act of terror.
According to The Blaze, members of the media rushed the home of the San Bernardino shooters – identified as Muslim newlyweds Muslim newlyweds, Syed Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27 – to broadcast live coverage of the findings inside the apartment.
CNN reporters said that the landlord was escorted away from the premises by law enforcement and put into a auto.
Initially, investigators suspected that the landlord had granted the media entrance into the apartment based on their account, but later learned he denied doing so.
“I don’t see any fingerprint dust on the walls where they went in there and checked for fingerprints for other people that might have been connected with these two”, he said. Then, she said journalists must figure out “what portions of that information are relevant and how they’re relevant”. “Broadcasting live precludes that”, she added. I think I’ll put this on TV.
CNN reporter Victor Blackwell, along with several others, tweeted photos of the rare open house.
That statement might also have warned producers of the perils of the live broadcast.