The new word is: "surreal." Every eyewitness news account seems to have the person saying, "It was surreal." The latest was the plane vs helicopter crash over the Hudson. An NYC 10 year old was a witness and said, what else, "it was surreal."
Later they had a report of shooting somewhere. Eyewitness said, what else, "it was surreal."
"Human interest" story about some idiot falling and not getting hurt. "What was it like?" "It was surreal."
You'd almost think there's a school out there somewhere for eyewitnesses. It couldn't be that "reporters" are coaching people on what to say. Nah, reporters have ethical standards.
Like the reporter who was interviewing 2 witnesses to that plane/helicopter incident - a twelve year old girl and her father. The reporter says the girl was so upset seeing the plane go down that she "shook and cried for 20 minutes." Then the reporter proceeded to ask questions in a manner that it was obvious she was trying to get this little girl to respond emotionally: "When you saw that plane going down it was like you realized that it could be a family, a family just like yours in that plane and you knew they were going to die. What were your thoughts?" "When that plane hit the water you knew that at any time you could lose your sister, or mother, or father, or all of them, at any time and you love them, don't you?
Great ethics to blatantly try to get a little girl to break down for the camera!
