{"id":10722,"date":"2015-08-27T15:44:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T15:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10722"},"modified":"2015-08-27T15:44:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T15:44:05","slug":"like-members-of-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10722","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Like members of the family&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/alison-and-adam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10723\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/alison-and-adam-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"alison and adam\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/alison-and-adam-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/alison-and-adam.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A USA Today article spells out a grim truth about the latest tragedy that has gripped the American public.<\/p>\n<p>Alison Parker and Adam Ward, two broadcast journalists who were slain on live TV this week, were like &#8220;members of the family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is why their deaths in Roanoke, Va., has body-slammed the community they served.<\/p>\n<p>Think about that.<\/p>\n<p>Television news viewers <em>invite<\/em> the people who deliver it into their homes. The reporters and camera people who provide the information are in viewers&#8217; homes because the viewers want them there.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, when they&#8217;re taken from viewers &#8212; particularly in such a graphic fashion &#8212; the public reacts perhaps a bit more viscerally than it does to reports of other tragic events.<\/p>\n<p>Do no misunderstand my point. I am not downplaying other tragedies as being less worthy of public grief. The Sandy Hood Elementary School shooting in Connecticut &#8212; in which 20 precious children and six educators were gunned down &#8212; drove millions of us to tears &#8230; and one American in particular, President Barack Obama, couldn&#8217;t restrain his own personal grief while commenting on it to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there are many other events that affect us deeply.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths of two journalists who were just doing their job on what was supposed to be a &#8220;routine story&#8221; and who were transmitting their story into people&#8217;s homes at the very moment of their death just hits us so very hard.<\/p>\n<p>They hurt us so very deeply.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/journalist-killings-like-deaths-in-the-family-for-viewers\/ar-BBm980G<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A USA Today article spells out a grim truth about the latest tragedy that has gripped the American public. Alison Parker and Adam Ward, two broadcast journalists who were slain on live TV this week, were like &#8220;members of the family.&#8221; That is why their deaths in Roanoke, Va., has body-slammed the community they served. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Like members of the family&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5393,5392,758,5390,5394],"class_list":["post-10722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-adam-ward","tag-alison-parker","tag-broadcast-journalism","tag-roanoke-shooting","tag-tv-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10724,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10722\/revisions\/10724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}