CBS reported on a woman on the Hawaii cruise ship The Grand Princess from Princess Cruises. As you read through the article it seems like a standard sort of story, a woman "intentionally" throws herself off a cruise ship and the cruise ship notified the coast guard. There was a bit of drama about the estimated time it took the coast guard to get there and the amount of time they said it would take (a two hour difference), but that is not my point. During this article they speak to a spokesperson from Princess Cruises and Coast Guard officials... Something missing? Oh yeah, that's right! Let's just leave out the woman who plummeted off of 17 deck ship, off of the list of people to talk to. I understand that she might want to keep her identity secret, but that doesn't mean CBS shouldn't have even tried to contact her. Especially since the cruise liner says that the woman was 54-years-old and the Coast Guard reported that the woman's age was 30. I believe that this article is breaking the Fairness yardstick of Journalism for not getting the victim's side of this issue.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57612292/coast-guard-joins-search-for-passenger-overboard-from-cruise-liner-off-hawaii/
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