AirAsia Disaster: Offensive photographs published by the BBC
My thoughts are with families and friends bereaved from the missing AirAsia plane. I felt I had to register a complaint with the BBC who delight in capturing and publishing their anguish and distress. Does anybody feel the same way?
---
"Every time there is a major disaster (air, sea, rail or natural disaster) the BBC take or acquire and publish pictures of the most distressed relatives they can find. I just have to register my repugnance. I have to say I couldn't do the job you give yourselves, because it's just nasty and filthy.
You journalists seem to like to think of yourselves as engaged in some high form of public service; but actually you're vultures, delighting in capturing the pain of others. There is almost never a justification to publish such images. I don't know how conscience allows you to turn cameras onto subjects in such anguish, nor how any of you are willing to take part in their publication. But I feel it important to let you know how it makes me feel about you. And for the purposes of statistical collection, please consider this negative feedback."
---
"Every time there is a major disaster (air, sea, rail or natural disaster) the BBC take or acquire and publish pictures of the most distressed relatives they can find. I just have to register my repugnance. I have to say I couldn't do the job you give yourselves, because it's just nasty and filthy.
You journalists seem to like to think of yourselves as engaged in some high form of public service; but actually you're vultures, delighting in capturing the pain of others. There is almost never a justification to publish such images. I don't know how conscience allows you to turn cameras onto subjects in such anguish, nor how any of you are willing to take part in their publication. But I feel it important to let you know how it makes me feel about you. And for the purposes of statistical collection, please consider this negative feedback."