After MSNBC treated viewers on Friday to a live look inside the San Bernardino shooters’ apartment, the network said they “regret” showing photos of children and identification cards during the live broadcast.
While the apartment was thick with camera crews and journalists all rifling through Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeem Malik’s Redlands, California home, MSNBC was the most heavily criticized for its broadcast. NBC News reporter Kerry Sanders showed close-up photos of children and held up a women’s driver’s license during the live shot.
In a statement provided to TPM, the network said:
MSNBC and other news organizations were invited into the home by the landlord after law enforcement officials had finished examining the site and returned control to the landlord. Although MSNBC was not the first crew to enter the home, we did have the first live shots from inside. We regret that we briefly showed images of photographs and identification cards that should not have been aired without review.
…but we’ll do it again if we get the chance.
Who let these folks into the apartment? Madness.
It looks like MSNBC wants to get to the bottom of the trash heap even faster than CNN. Someone needs to tell them they don’t really want to win that race.
America, where mass murder is a ratings booster. Soon it will be a spectator sport. Oh, never mind, it already is. Just take a look at what’s shoveled out of Hollywood as entertainment today.
There is no way the FBI gave control back to the landlord that quickly. There should have been a guard stationed there. They found explosives and yet relinquished control in two days? Something’s wrong.