Media invade San Bernardino shooters’ home

Sanders said that the FBI had gone through the apartment to obtain any evidence related to the shooters and also to disarm any bombs or boobytraps that might be inside.

Still, Sanders said NBC News did not pay for access to the apartment and that Miller allowed NBC in because he didn’t “have anything to hide.”

“I just think there’s an intense curiosity if we’ll see anything in there and what we see in there might reveal something or may not,” Sanders said, before he entered the apartment and rummaged through the former personal belongings of the now-dead shooters.

Sanders walked through the apartment commenting on everyday household items, like a calendar, notebooks and childrens’ toys (the shooters were parents of a six-month-old daughter).

Despite Sanders’ assertion that NBC News had been allowed inside the apartment and that it was at the discretion of the owner, media many observers on social media were outraged.

“What’s happening on MSNBC right now is appalling,” said Mark F. Bonner, managing editor of the International Business Times, on Twitter. “This is not journalism.”

“What on earth is happening on MSNBC right now?” remarked Lauren Kelley, an editor at Rolling Stone magazine.

Mark Meredith, a TV reporter in Washington, D.C., said that the live stream of a home that once belonged to the suspects of a mass shooting “seems way across the ethical boundaries for journalists.”