Comments on: A touch of class

By: Lia

Lia — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:40:50 +0000

Nope, I wouldn’t buy those papers. Private grief isn’t news, isn’t an angle. Pity people don’t have the cop-on to boycott that paper for the rest of the week, that’d soon stop that practice.

Do people send in pictures of themselves with tears rolling down their faces, instead of an obituary?
Of course not, we can read, and if we knew the person involved, we’d be there at the funeral, not behind a camera lens.

By: Mark Dowling

Mark Dowling — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:57:45 +0000

“unless justified by overriding consideration of the public interest” – what interests the public is not necessarily in the public interest. Needless to say the tabloids (and the Indo and Sindo are just another form of red top) don’t make that distinction.

By: G.G Alan

G.G Alan — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:01:07 +0000

That wannabe broadsheet is not fit for a bum’s arse. The paper is a shambles and you would only need to look back to the Liam Lawler incident to see what a pack of story hungry animals they really are. The weekly sport has better journalism!

By: snookertony

snookertony — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:23:43 +0000

I can beat that one – We had a fire in the town early last week and all ‘cept the 23 year old son managed to get out. The cries of the mother to the son and his cries back as the house went up will haunt the street for ever.
Friday morning, 3 days later, the front page photo is the mother and father in the depths of grief in the back of the ambulance as the house burnt.
Local papers – cunts. Nothing is sacred. The rotten thing is the paper is a free giveaway twice a week so it’s not as though they were trying to sell copy.
I’ll say it again . Cunts.

By: Bearhunter

Bearhunter — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:07:22 +0000

Couple of general points here as a former daily news journalist (who quit because of precisely this kind of sensationalist news coverage): Firstly, the pic looks like it was taken in the street and that, while tasteless, I’ll admit, is perfectly legal.
Secondly, if you check the circulation figures of newspapers carrying bad news on page 1, you’ll find that sales improve in inverse proportion to the good news level. The general public lap bad news up, there’s no getting away form it. The papers are just giving the public what it wants. On a personal level, and with this case particularly, I wouldn’t have covered it. I’d have just gone as far as reporting that the kid was killed and left it at that.

By: bc

bc — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:11:41 +0000

It’s not just an Irish thing….we have the same crap going on here in Canada…..what I don’t understand are the people who choose to be interviewed or photographed within days, sometimes hours it seems, of losing a ‘loved one’ tragically………maybe they’re in shock, I don’t know, but it’s gruesome to me, I turn the news off as soon as there’s an intro about that kind of story……though I have noticed a very recent phenomenon of the media actually saying they will not ‘intrude on the family at this time’…….and the newspapers here……don’t even bother to purchase them or read them anymore…..as for the idea that it wouldn’t be printed/written/shown if the public didn’t want it…………if it weren’t printed/written/shown, would the public demand it?

By: peckerhead

peckerhead — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:38:19 +0000

And kicking the shit out of a camera (or cameraman) is NOT what will turn the tide, brothers, sisters… \sheesh!

By: peckerhead

peckerhead — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:25:03 +0000

Since you evoke “Herr McDowell (or his like, who took over afterwards”, I presume, you feckless eejit, that you don’t know which particular Nat-zee occupied McDowell’s position, nor indeed what that position actually is?

The kind of cunts that “needed” protecting under the terms of that Act were already protected by ranks of copiously well-paid S.C. rottweilers. The difference here is that it’s just an ordinary family (whatever that is?) who are unlikely to sue.

By: feckless eejit

feckless eejit — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:13:00 +0000

Em.. sorry for any rash words earlier,
but, I still think a Herr McDowell (or his like, who took over afterwards)control of the press is wrong,

The Press should have space to express itself, but
still know the fucking difference between right and wrong.

This shit is wrong, who wrote it, who photographed it,they should be told so, that they are indeed cunts.
They don’t help the family, just themselves.

By: scorchio

scorchio — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:23:56 +0000

smashing camera’s would take away the freedom of the press……
to be obnoxious lying propganda spreading cunts