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Why would Thornburg want to interview Holly consider he put her & her family in danger?


I've thought Thornburg totally threw himself into the lion's den when he went up to interview Holly considering he broke into her home just hours earlier and put her and her family in danger, wasn't Thornburg even aware that he put the McClane family in danger?

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Maybe!

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He's such a weasley jerk, he probably didn't consider how she might have felt.

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He definitely deserved getting punched in the mouth for putting Holly in danger.

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He deserve far worse. A fine for breaking into her home under threat, illegally filming children without parents permission. Heck with a good lawyer you could put him in jail.

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He was a reporter and a chance to get the exclusive first interview with the McClanes as they are walking out of the building. He was so arrogant and full of himself that he probably didn't even realize the recklessness of putting the children on tv. And even if he did, he didn't care, he got the story and that's all that mattered to him.

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Ratings top all.

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Why would he think that Holly had witnessed his attempt to interview her family? He would have assumed that as a hostage, she'd have had no chance to watch TV.

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both
didnt know
didnt care

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Because of the "American Dream"?
He makes this interview, he becomes famous, he becomes rich. And then nobody cares any more about the skeletons in his closet.

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Because he’s the perfect representation of the losers who make up the media.

Things are different today. Today they sit in their basement, read Twitter, and then write the story.

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Nah. The local stations are still runing the same. Remmeber that interview of a "cousin" of a guy shot by the cop. That cousin hasnt seen the guy for two years but the "journalist" makes it sound like he saw him half an hour before the shooting.

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He thought he was actually helping Holly (he said it may be last time the kids could speak to her so they must film). Hes the kind of guy that does everything wrong and believes its right.

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