Checkbook Journalism

NBC payed 100,00 dollars for the videos of the two skydiving planes crashing. This is called checkbook journalism, which is very unethical. They also payed for the footage of a kidnapping of a girl named Hannah Anderson. This is also checkbook journalism. 

I agree that paying for the videos / footages of a tragedy is very wrong and unethical. It doesn't just hurt the individuals who were in the accident, but it also hurts the families of those individuals. I believe that checkbook journalism should be illegal.