{"id":8905,"date":"2017-08-31T22:56:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T02:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=8905"},"modified":"2017-09-01T06:38:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T10:38:50","slug":"imprudence-at-the-moment-to-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/imprudence-at-the-moment-to-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter&#8217;s questions upset storm victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By VICTOR GUZMAN BERGER<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 29, after Hurricane Harvey struck in Houston, a woman had an overreaction when she was abruptly interviewed by a reporter who came to her at just the same moment tragedy had occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it was not a good time to talk. According to the woman, what else could happen on top of living the worst tragedy of her life?\u00a0 Being interviewed by a reporter to give a public statement of something I do not even want to recall, was &#8220;the cherry on top the cake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the journalist wasn\u2019t aware of the woman\u2019s mood ahead of time. Maybe she should have considered a different approach, offering some help, asking the woman if she was feeling okay. It seems the reporter was surprised and consequently this made her nervous. Every time the woman got upset, the reporter would reply \u201cI am sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By VICTOR GUZMAN BERGER On Aug. 29, after Hurricane Harvey struck in Houston, a woman had an overreaction when she was abruptly interviewed by a reporter who came to her at just the same moment tragedy had occurred. Apparently it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/imprudence-at-the-moment-to-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[30,29,60],"class_list":["post-8905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victor-guzman-berger","tag-journalism","tag-television-news","tag-weather-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8922,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions\/8922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}