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[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 258 points 4 days ago

The news reporter wanted a feel good puff piece regardless of how inappropriate it is. The interviewee wanted to report the actual news.

[-] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 3 days ago

The company that owns that NBC affiliate wanted a feel good puff piece. I doubt she had a say in the matter.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

Yeah, she's just following orders.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We all know how good "just following orders" and "just doing my job" turns out.

[-] xSikes@feddit.online 12 points 3 days ago

But it wasn’t inappropriate…

To the holding company it is.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 days ago

hoarding company*

🤌🏼

[-] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

A misunderstanding on your part I thinks. I believe they are saying it was inappropriate to attempt to sanitize reality so they could release a "feel good puff piece".

[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Was it live? Probably not. That means they left it in on purpose.

[-] GunValkyrie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago
[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yes. But if they aired it, they aired it on purpose. Clips like that are rarely actually live. So they made a show of not continuing to give him airtime, but they gave him enough to get his message out - twice.

[-] GunValkyrie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It's says "Live" in the upper left hand corner.

[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

They often lie about that. It's usually pseudo live, as in, recorded just a short while before.

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