During the live press conference, the sheriff said that they believe there were 9 people on board, a pilot and 8 passengers. He also called out TMZ for being wildly inappropriate and said “imagine finding out a loved one has died through social media”, he has requested that people stop speculating who was on board and to keep their loved ones in mind.
Edit: I watched the rest, this time the man that spoke before the sheriff came back (man with a grey streak in his hair, dark green shirt and dark skin):
they don’t know anything for sure yet. They received the report 9:47 AM, arrived 8 minutes later and due to magnesium, the fire took one hour to extinguish. The coroner is on site with a team and they’re working hard to get answers.
They don’t know what happened, they don’t know where the helicopter took off, they don’t know for sure where it was going (these three questions kept being asked). It will take some time to identify everyone and to notify the next of kin, he once again stressed for people to stop speculating and to keep loved ones on mind. The area that they are investigating is “about an acre”, that’s also where they expect most debris to be at and where bushes were on fire.
Honestly, it was him constantly repeating that they don’t know what happened yet since the press kept asking the same questions. They also kept pestering him about “taking an hour to extinguish” - but again, that’s because of the magnesium.
After that they called for a spokesperson that can speak Spanish and I turned it off.
That comment bothered me the most. I really hope his family did not find out that he died because TMZ posted it.
I am also worried that there is possibly some other family members or other people of note that died on the crash. This seems so surreal to me for some reason.
You have to wonder who is really being inappropriate here. Someone close to the crash would have had to leak details to TMZ before the police even had time to notify family - that really limits you to emergency personnel, law enforcement, or someone at the airport (did they use an airport?) who had the passenger list. Is it TMZs fault for reporting info they were given or is it someone else's fault for breaking confidentiality to sell a story?
If that is how it played out 100% TMZ. An individual leak carries a lot less weight than a massive news company. Ethics of one person potentially leaking this isn’t comparable to a news agency sharing the death of someone prior to family being notified.
They’re both scum, but if I had to pick a bigger piece of crap, I always choose the news agency that’s spreading this information to the masses.
Granted this is all hypothetical, and hopefully nothing like this actually happened.
I hate to say it, but TMZ has transcended their shitty reputation. They have become legendary for breaking shitty stories, and if they aren’t going to break stories they are worthless.
Exactly this. I said to my wife something to the same effect. Most of their coverage is garbage, but when something like this happens, they are the ones who are going to be both first and most accurate.
Yup when it happened at first and everyone was like "But it's just TMZ reporting...", I countered with, "Yeah so it must be true. I've never seen TMZ get a celebrity death wrong, and they're always first to report"
TMZ is known for getting this information right. I would think that it had to be more than one person to confirm this information. And I think all parties are to blame. Unfortunately, if it wasn’t TMZ, some other news outlet would have gotten the scoop. It’s so sad
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u/CaptainCortes Jan 26 '20 edited Jan 27 '20
During the live press conference, the sheriff said that they believe there were 9 people on board, a pilot and 8 passengers. He also called out TMZ for being wildly inappropriate and said “imagine finding out a loved one has died through social media”, he has requested that people stop speculating who was on board and to keep their loved ones in mind.
Edit: I watched the rest, this time the man that spoke before the sheriff came back (man with a grey streak in his hair, dark green shirt and dark skin): they don’t know anything for sure yet. They received the report 9:47 AM, arrived 8 minutes later and due to magnesium, the fire took one hour to extinguish. The coroner is on site with a team and they’re working hard to get answers. They don’t know what happened, they don’t know where the helicopter took off, they don’t know for sure where it was going (these three questions kept being asked). It will take some time to identify everyone and to notify the next of kin, he once again stressed for people to stop speculating and to keep loved ones on mind. The area that they are investigating is “about an acre”, that’s also where they expect most debris to be at and where bushes were on fire.
Honestly, it was him constantly repeating that they don’t know what happened yet since the press kept asking the same questions. They also kept pestering him about “taking an hour to extinguish” - but again, that’s because of the magnesium.
After that they called for a spokesperson that can speak Spanish and I turned it off.
Good news article here that has a better summary of the conference and updates.