Chicago TV reporter in hot water

Rambler, if the bikini is the problem, as many have suggested, it says just as much about us as it does about her.
Conversely, should she be wearing a "professional" expensive suit in an environment where kids (and her own weren't the only ones present) are splashing around nearby?

 

Should her kids be swimming at the house of a potential murder suspect in a story she's covering?

 

It's wrong what she did, on so many levels. If it were a guy doing this with a female murder suspect? Same shitstorm, and deservedly so. You at the very least find stuff to throw on, and tell him to meet on neutral ground.

 

No, but slacks and a polo shirt would have been more fitting. And her kids were there. The guy may have offed his wife and she brought her kids there.

 

Obviously, Rambler, she wasn't expecting to be on camera. She would've dressed differently if she was bringing a crew with her. And if you're concerned about the kids, don't you also have a problem with Channel 2 showing them in the footage it aired on TV and the Web? A lot of people saw that footage before the kids were digitized.

 

But the kids (toddlers, actually) aren't a bag or iPod you can choose to take somewhere. They don't belong in anything resembling a work environment.

 

Just because she didn't expect to be on camera, that doesn't make her being in a bikini OK. She should have dressed differently just to go over to that house, period. Doesn't matter whether it was for a formal interview or an informal talk over iced tea, she cannot go to that man's house in a bikini as a professional. She needs to dress the part.

 

Get beyond the fact she's dressed in a bikini top and towel ... and she's bringing her young kids to the house of a man whose wife has just disappeared.
We all seem to agree those were really poor choices, but maybe this could have been avoided if she had bothered to inform her editor/boss that the sister had asked her to swing by. I think most of us let our editors know what we're doing in the course of a day, especially if we're working on a high-profile investigative story. They might have persuaded her to put on decent clothes and leave the kids at home.

 

I love the no-makeup, make sure the huge wedding ring is next to your face, woe-is-me photos of her over the last couple of days.
Guess what, Amy?


Here is your career anyway and nothing you can do about it:

 

Based on recent events, the odds of her landing future employment in the following two areas have been greatly diminished:

* High-profile TV reporter
* Child care provider

 

I disagree on point 1 -- some station will see her as a ratings bonanza and hire her and I'd be willing to be sooner than later.