I can't even imagine what this poor young woman is going through. I pray for her to find some peace and comfort.
My goodness. I have to say, if CNN didn’t IMMEDIATELY send a grief counselor or some kind of specialist to that woman’s house IMMEDIATELY after that interview, which was conducted over zoom, so the woman was alone, if they didn’t immediately send her some help after this I find it incredibly exploitative. Once the producer did the pre-interview, which they should be obligated to do in this situation, it’s not a live interview on scene, so you have time to prep and get a read on what the subject is like and what might transpire in the interview — once that was done I feel this should not have been allowed to go forward and they should have sent that woman help. Am I an outlier here? Am I being too damn sensitive? I wound it back to the beginning, your original link starts a ways into the interview so I started it from the top. To hear the anchor LEAD her to the recollection of the shooting placing the gun to her forehead, and I know she leads her because she’s glancing down at her notes and trying to track her way to getting the juicy sound byte out of this woman that they did indeed uncover in the pre-interview — exploitative. EDIT: To be clear I'm not blaming the poster at ALL. My ire is with CNN. If a dead body is lying in the street uncovered it's impossible to reframe from looking at it. The blame is with the folks who've left the uncovered body in the street.
Kudos to cNN for airing this. It’s the rawest most real interview I’ve seen after a shooting. This is normal, this is the devastation that’s visited on these survivors but we as a society just seeep it under the carpet. Quick little interviews and shots of people comforting others it doesn’t capture the trauma. If people like her were given a proper voice maybe just maybe we could take common sense measure to reduce gun violence. But yeah she needs some help I can’t wrap my head around what she went through
Yeah. Let’s take this tragic situation and blame CNN. The person wanted to try to try to bring a shred of good and relief to a horrible situation by communicating she was there for the victims final moments. It was her choice and seemed like a good choice. It helped her deal with the situation and possibly helped the victims families. But let’s blame CNN. And of course thoughts and prayers.
I've often dreamt of winning hundreds of millions and setting up a foundation to help women just like her - rich in morals and compassion, lacking in other areas and on the bottom rung with kids and just needing a break. What a wonderful human.
