A Solid Point...

A Journalist sent FTVLive this email and we wanted to share it with you as some food for thought.

We have seen this happen before on other similar stories and I would hope that Journalists we be better than this.

Email:

I was watching the Chicago Midwest Emmy ceremony Saturday night.  The bigger categories at the end of the night were various outstanding newscast awards.  Numerous entries and winners were regarding the Highland Park parade mass shooting that happened in the Chicago area.  Most winners came up on stage and celebrated their victory of covering a mass shooting.  It seemed tone deaf to me.  A little humility would have been nice considering the shooting was the worst day of their lives for many people.  It’s nice to be recognized for the very hard work of providing quality coverage of these breaking news events, but tone down the celebrating. 

You can see the video by jumping to 3:25:50 (yes that is 3 hours).