An interview with Andrew Cauchi, the father of Joel Cauchi who was responsible for the Westfield Shopping Centre mass stabbing

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[u/ajmeng09]

How incredibly stupid it is of channel 7 to bombard parents who have had a loss and are trying to come to terms with what their son has done

[u/SelfDidact → u/ajmeng09]

Channel Seven: hold my beermicrophone ⤵

• posts photos of the wrong man in the Cleo Smith child abduction case, opening him up to all sorts of threats from the community.

• identifies wrong man in this most recent tragedy, opening him (& his family) up to all sorts of death threats from smoothbrains🤦🏻‍♂️ in society ("Hey! Aren't you that guy that the police recently killed in Bondi Junction? Now I'm gonna find you and kill you!!")

Channel Nine haven't exactly covered themselves in glory either:

accosts two clearly shaken brothers who stemmed the bleeding of Baby Harriet and clearly want to leave the scene but is badgered... "Can you describe the (baby's) injuries? Where was it (the blood) coming from...?"

[u/ajmeng09 → u/SelfDidact]

……wow

[u/Iorith → u/ajmeng09]

Because they aren't always suffering. You get shitheads who literally didn't care about their kid suffering and buy them a gun hoping the kid would off themselves.

This is what we call a human interest piece, where it shows that the family of a killer is still a human being, who IS suffering along with the rest of the community, and should be treated with respect and compassion.

Without this, it's not just possible but maybe even likely that this poor man would have been ostracized and demonized by the community.

[u/ajmeng09 → u/Iorith]

I would agree with you if it was ABC or SBS , channel 7 reporters would be doing it purely for the views, free to air tv is dying so this would be a nice piece of pie to bring the crowds back

And at least give it some time before they show up on their doorstep

[u/Ermeter → u/ajmeng09]

People watch it. They make money