Seamus Colemole
Previously deathbyropeandglass
It's not valid at all. Saying 'its just my job' obviously isn't valid when you're f***ing murdering people, but it's far more valid when you're interviewing people on tv while your editor is breathing down your neck. That's why it doesn't work as an analogy on any level, even drawing the comparison is crass.
Well you either believe that in the process of doing your job and following orders that using peoples emotions when a little girl is missing to make "entertaining" tv is ok or you don't.
I certainly don't think it is, there's no excuse for Burley (or anyone else involved) to broadcast what they did apart from the fact that they're assholes, it was out of order and not excusable because they were just doing their job, just as lots of other things aren't excusable for that reason.