Camera Crew Discreetly Trails Overweight Woman For Obesity Segment

[Paul]

Question: What do you think of the article quoted below? The link to the article is here:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/32899

MILWAUKEE—A WITI News camera crew spent 30 minutes inconspicuously following an overweight woman at the Henry W. Maier Festival Park Monday to capture footage for an upcoming segment on obesity. "It's hard to get anyone to agree to be filmed to illustrate what a fat person looks like," cameraman Doug Kovalik said, nonchalantly pointing his camera at an obese woman who was tugging at a pair of shorts bunched into her crotch while she ate a corn dog. "We avoid the whole mess by shooting them from behind or the neck down. It saves us the hassle of filling out release forms." Kovalik last used this discreet filming technique in May, when he captured B-roll at a local craft mall for a segment on managed care for the elderly.

Personally I think I feel film crew is wrong to believe they have the right to "stalk" a fat woman without her knowledge to get film footage. The justification for their right to film the woman without her knowledge is that "It's hard to get anyone to agree to be filmed to illustrate what a fat person looks like." It is not right and their is no justification for stalking a person to get film footage which they would not agree to through a signed release form. Now I know why so many shows and articles about obesity show pictures of headless fat women and men. This is icky! This is not right. What are your thoughts?

 

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