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In response to "If you were a tv news producer, would you send a cameraman to the Salinger funeral? -- nm" by Loyola

if I were a producer, yes. If I were following my own moral sense, no. -- nm

Posted by znufrii Jan 28 '10, 11:15

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what's immoral about covering a funeral? -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 11:15 19
- my picture was in the paper as a pallbearer last year. I got calls from 6 different people saying they saw it. - dogbert Jan 28, 11:23 2
  - "Congratulations on getting the paper!" doesn't seem quite right for that situation. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 11:24 1
    - exactly. the first call was "hey, I saw you in the paper". I thought "really? that's cool." (I've never been in a paper that I know of). he told me - dogbert Jan 28, 11:27
- I wouldn't say it's immoral per se, but Salinger would have probably *hated* it. -- nm - Loyola Jan 28, 11:18
- depends whether it's open casket. -- nm - mafic Jan 28, 11:17
- grieving family members might see it as an invasion, by shark-like people hoping to profit off their grief -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:17 13
  - well don't stick a camera in the casket, but... he's a significant person and it's news. - Reagen Jan 28, 11:19 4
    - NFL skycam! -- nm - Max Jan 28, 11:20 3
      - *laughing* News stations are probably already inflating the blimps. -- nm - Loyola Jan 28, 11:21
      - Hee. Not that kind of angle. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 11:20 1
        
        "A local cemetery owner has installed a skycam to cover celebrity deaths. We went to interview the family of JD Salinger to get their response." -- nm - Max Jan 28, 11:23
  - By that definition, it could possibly be immoral to cover the funeral of a president if the family wanted it private. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 28, 11:18 7
    - except the president in a emminently public figure, therefore covering his funeral is relevant and newsworthy. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 11:26 6
      - funerals get in the paper when a) the person is significant b) the manner of their death was significant. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 11:28 4
        
        obituaries, yes. funerals, not in my experience. - znufrii Jan 28, 11:37 3
        
        You're aware of what I do for a living, right? -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 11:40 2
        
        stop inserting facts into the discussion - it just confuses things. -- nm - decline Jan 28, 11:42
        
        not a clue. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 11:41
      - I doubt he wrote that book for himself -- nm - Guigue Jan 28, 11:28

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