>>The thoughts on what that reporter should be doing would cause me trouble...
She shows absolute lack of insight. Surely in future years, people will review and cringe at the sneering tone at the beginning, the condescension and the relentless focus to land a blow on BOM. You can scour that clip forever for acknowledgment that BOM was wilfully excluded from the funeral, which in any normal civil environment might cause you to issue statements via your wife and to send your kids along rather than horning in where you're clearly not wanted. But no, the pattern- including right here on CFU- is to shroud any reasonable explanation and focus on the absurd or outrageous.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1