Yes but we don't know a lot about WTNV Community radio, for all we know death is the initiation. I mean after all, practically all the interns are dead. And the description of his family, to me, sounds like a family in mourning, like the mother is cracking and his brother is numb because they lost Cecil. Cecil meanwhile doesn't understand he's dead. The mother could have covered the mirrors because she kept 'seeing' him in them. And Cecil mentions that the mirror in the bathroom is covered and the recording booths, in the tapes young Cecil notes that they are empty yet they are still broadcasting.