Was I shocked when I read Andrea S. Lafferty’s article about ABC News sending an undercover photographer into a crowd of Ground Zero Mosque protesters? Yes and no.
Yes, because it’s something a news organization has no business doing. No, because nothing surprises me with the media nowadays.
NBC’s Dateline sent people dressed as Muslims to a NASCAR race shortly after 9-11 to videotape bigotry that they hoped to find. They found none, but that’s not the point here. The fact they thought they would find it at a NASCAR race shows NBC’s bigotry.
In this latest case, ABC needs to explain what it was doing and why it was doing it (of course, we already know, but if they are truly transparent as a media outlet, they would want to explain themselves.)Undercover cameras are used all the time in gathering news, but they are used when media feel they are going after a “perp”, a bad-guy or some other evil criminal. ABC used an undercover camera to go after average American citizens who apparently are seen as “perps” by the network.
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