It
happens in the wake of almost any tragedy serious enough to make the
national news: Conspiracy theories circulate claiming that it didn’t
really happen, or that it was staged to advance a political agenda, or
that the witnesses and family members seen sobbing on television are
actually actors. In the wake of the mass killing at a Florida high
school last week, it happened again — this time, spread by an aide to a
state legislator who emailed a Tampa Bay Times reporter to pass along a
tip that “[b]oth kids in the picture are not students here but actors
that travel to various crisis when they happen.”
The
“kids” referred to by Benjamin A. Kelly, a district secretary for
Republican state Rep. Shawn Harrison, were two survivors of the Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting who were interviewed on CNN.
Kelly was promulgating a notion as cruel as it is implausible: The
people on television you see grieving? Actors paid to show up and look
sad.
SOURCE: YAHOO NEWS
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