Did A Doctor Rush Death?

by Chelsea Williams
I watched a video on CNN.com that questioned and investigated whether or not a transplant doctor rushed the death of a patient in order to obtain his organs. This video was quite effective because it showed footage of the patient before his death, as well as footage of the boy's mother mourning the loss of her son. These segments definitely triggered the most emotion, and allowed viewers to sympathsize with the boy's family. However, while these clips proved to be powerful, the segments with the accused doctor were fairly non-stimulating. While they spoke with his lawyer, it would have been nice to hear from him. I'm sure for legal reasons this would have been tricky, but they should have just shown less footage of him if we couldn't even hear his voice. There were too many shots of him just staring into space in the courtroom, which leave an impression initially, but lose some of their visual impact as they appear more frequently. A well-respected doctor's ethical judgement was questioned, and we didn't even get to hear what he had to say about it.
Had this been a text-only story, it would have been far more difficult to capture the strong emotion experienced by the mother. It is easy to read that someone is devastated by the potential premature death of her son, but it is downright difficult to see a mother sobbing, then flash to a shot of her son when he was alive. Text-only would limit the varying degrees of emotion that were captured via this video.