Folding the circus tents?

Marieke Hardy asks "where does the reporting stop and the media circus begin?" in this Melbourne Age article.

Part of what she says:

"I'm not addressing this from a place of cynicism. I too have pored over news reports and nightly bulletins, been awash with tears at the sort of survival stories that render you utterly numb with grief and reaching out to call your mother and tell her you love her. It's only when you're on your fourth or fifth day of coverage and you see a television journalist standing next to a car, hard up for content and prodding a grey-faced driver with the question: "Guess you've lost a lot of friends up on that mountain ... must feel pretty bad ... how would you describe how that feels exactly?" that you start to wonder whether you're beginning to be party to preying upon the raw grief of others and that perhaps it's time to put the goddamned cameras away."