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Also.... who made this one woman the spokesperson? The one with the son and daughter. Everytime I turn on the CNN or whatever she's being interviewed.
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Quite simply, she was willing to be interviewed. She ran out of the church and up to Anderson Cooper with the news that only one miner had survived. She had first-person information. My mother had been watching earlier in the day, and apparently he had interviewed her already, so they had a relationship of sorts established. She didn't have a family member in the mine, so she wasn't so grief-stricken that she couldn't face the media.
And yes, we feel awful about asking questions of people who are going through tragedies. But it was the reporters' jobs to find out what had transpired in that church. Everybody watching wanted to know what the heck had happened. Most couldn't speak, but some went up to the reporters and volunteered information. After any tragedy, you'll see the same people on every network being interviewed. For some, this is cathartic. For some, well, I guess it makes them feel important. But I'm such a private person, I know I wouldn't feel comfortable doing that.