Gutter Journalism is not Just Tabloids

There are plenty of things that turn my stomach.  But one of the most gratuitous is journalistic coverage of disasters.  It is their pleasure to find the most harrowing scenes and shove them in your face.  They pursue like a pack of slavering dingoes the most distressed family members of victims and relish the awards and prestige they might gain from stuffing them in your face.  It is from behind frowning faces that news readers have the greatest delight to report on developing stories and speculation of human misery.

Of course, not all journalists; but specifically including journalists who make themselves out to be in the highest reputable echelons of journalism, and to be even more specific I cannot think of any BBC TV journalist to whom that doesn't appear to apply: it seems to be a mandatory attribute of appointment to their job.