Monday, December 29, 2014

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?
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"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."