Inappropriate
Once more I have to comment on the news treatment of a tragedy by The Times. I refer to the story in the Orange County Edition of Jan. 4 describing the funeral services for Bylan Hanna of Lake Forest (“Mourning a Life Cut Short”).
I thought the family’s grief and the evidence of community sympathy were done warmly enough--until I came to the paragraph stating that “at the funeral, the family declined to be interviewed.” There I grimaced. That the reporter dared to approach family members for an interview at their deepest moments of grief leaves me incredulous. Such a scene would seem to be right out of Hollywood and not becoming of the Los Angeles Times.
PAUL BREITWEISER, Lake Forest
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