Newscaster Mocked For Promoting Story On Youth Drug Use With Bizarre Teen 'Bedroom'

A St. Louis newscaster was mocked on Thursday after Twitter users suggested a photo about an upcoming story on teen drug use was staged.

Paige Hulsey, an anchor/reporter at CBS affiliate KMOV, took to social media to promote a story about how a parent can tell if their teenager is doing drugs.

The tweet was accompanied by a photo of what Hulsey suggested was “a normal teen’s bedroom” — and therein lies the rub.

For various reasons, people were very skeptical that the bedroom belonged to a real teen.

Others found other problems with the tweet beyond a possibly bogus bedroom.

One Twitter user noted the real issue at stake.

Hulsey told HuffPost that the reason the teen’s bedroom might look like an office is that it was an office.

“I said that in the liveshot. ‘We are inside DEA headquarters downtown,’” she told HuffPost. “I also said that the space made to look like a bedroom was set up by the group ‘Addiction is Real.’”

Hulsey admitted that the look of a normal teen’s bedroom can be debated, but said, “the purpose of the segment was to bring attention to youth drug use.”