The recent Virginia Tech shootings have sparked media interest all over the world, but have journalists gone too far this time in getting their front page exclusives?
It has been revealed that journalists were using bloggers and facebook accounts, by sending messages to witnesses of the shootings, in an attempt to get them to speak out about their terrifying experience, despite being warned to stay away. Journalists have a reputation for being intrusive and willing to go to any lengths for a story, but this was purely insensitive. The students had just witnessed their friends being shot in a frenzied attack, yet the journalists didn't seem to care about giving them space to allow them to grieve in privacy. This latest ethically wrong tactic hasn't done journalists' reputation any good.
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