I honestly wish people could just sign waivers and sidestep the red tape. There needs to be a bit of a precedent set in that area IMO.
Reminds me of a current-affairs segment I saw on Australian TV many years (~a decade) ago on someone who was pursuing an alternative cancer therapy for their young son.
It took me a couple of days to properly digest the slightly disorientating/uncharacteristic format/presentation used by this particular episode: I eventually realized there was no explanation other than that the presenter had been told to "bad cop"-interrogate the person on the show in order to get footage to make them look weak, and on further thought (just now) I reckon they probably didn't crumble as much as the show had hoped and the resulting edited-together footage was a bit cacophonic/disjointed, heheh.
Learned a bit about the media (and that presenters really have no rights if they want to keep their jobs) that week.
I don't even remember what the therapy was in question (or the country the family had traveled to to pursue it), but the person on the show was more or less close to demonized for their choices. I decided it was suspicious that this had been put on TV for whatever reason; why did I need to see this?
I mention this example to point out that setting the aforementioned precedent seems like it will generally be very hard. :(
Reminds me of a current-affairs segment I saw on Australian TV many years (~a decade) ago on someone who was pursuing an alternative cancer therapy for their young son.
It took me a couple of days to properly digest the slightly disorientating/uncharacteristic format/presentation used by this particular episode: I eventually realized there was no explanation other than that the presenter had been told to "bad cop"-interrogate the person on the show in order to get footage to make them look weak, and on further thought (just now) I reckon they probably didn't crumble as much as the show had hoped and the resulting edited-together footage was a bit cacophonic/disjointed, heheh.
Learned a bit about the media (and that presenters really have no rights if they want to keep their jobs) that week.
I don't even remember what the therapy was in question (or the country the family had traveled to to pursue it), but the person on the show was more or less close to demonized for their choices. I decided it was suspicious that this had been put on TV for whatever reason; why did I need to see this?
I mention this example to point out that setting the aforementioned precedent seems like it will generally be very hard. :(