Pictures at any cost
A woman wails over a corpse in her backyard in Melbourne yesterday while a Nine News chopper flies overhead.
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A woman wails over a corpse in her backyard in Melbourne yesterday while a Nine News chopper flies overhead.
As she sobs over his deceased body, covered by a blanket, they shamelessly film the scene denying her, and two women with her, all privacy.
Get the pictures at any cost.
Blaze it across the 6:00 News.
Is it only because the man was the patriarch of a family well-known to police that such pictures were used?
Would a blonde, blue-eyed mother from Camberwell be subjected to the same exposure if she were mourning over her dead son in the middle of the street?
What are the rights of family members at a time like this?
Where do you draw the line between privacy and Public Interest -and could the magnitude of the crime not have been relayed without them?
The picture is currently being used by The Age and the Herald Sun.
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32 Responses
I spent 7 of my 20 years in broadcasting working on ABC’s Media watch. The positive thing is that there is a greater awareness and questioning of media stories and practices – the negative – they continue to invade, misrepresent, overstate, understate, compromise integrity and make errors of fact and judgement. They just don’t get it!
I don’t think David’s unreasonably having a go at Nine, they’re the ones who ran the pictures so they’re the ones who deserve criticism. I have no doubt that Seven would have run the pictures if they had them, but in this instance they didn’t so I don’t see why David is expected to be equal-opportunity in his criticism.
and camo, in this case it was nine that took that footage, so it is acceptable to single them out. Of course the others will run the footage so as not to have less superior news coverage, but it was still nine that sent a chopper out to aerial film the people.
Absolutely agree with you david. You have made a very clear point, and you have every right to point that out being your own opinion. This is a blog, and i think sometimes people forget that, because you’ve got every right to put your opinion to stories.
Unfortunately, stuff like this will always happen in news.
Why would Nine do this? Because you all watched it!
yeh lets not single out 9 for this…any of them would have run those pictures…so David me thinks you are having a go at nine here…. and Mandyj you hit the nail on the head…journos only live by the code when it suits them…. i have journos on the same level as used car sales people…will twist a story to suit their needs and will justify it any way they can to stand out from the crowd…but we the viewer watch it …and then the nine bashers come on here and do what they can …bash nine…and i have worked with TV journos for 20+ years…lovely peoply to you when they think they can get something from you ….
Vid: If you can’t read and figure out why I published this then I can’t help you. Everyone else appears to have understood it.
Was I doing it to have a go at Nine? Absolutely. Next question?
Shame on me? Yes shame on me for speaking up when the media crosses a line. Shame on me for drawing attention to what a network did to those women. Perhaps you might like to enlighten us as to what crime they have been convicted of? Your defence of this as news vision would suggest that the same story could not have been told without it. I disagree.
Shame on me for putting my full name and occupation to an opinion and publishing opinions that do not agree with me. Shame on me for daring to criticise the network you constantly defend across this blog and which employs you. If everyone had the same blinkered view as yours then it is no wonder we end up with footage like this. I have faith there are others who do not, because I have met them and studied their work.