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Marcus Founding member
smw posted:
Marcus posted:
NickyS posted:
TVDragon posted:
Under what circumstances was Terry's body shown on al Jazeera? How was it available to be seen? That's quite frightful.

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I really don't know if they did show it or not but I have to say that Al-Jazeera have been showing lots of pictures of the dead bodies of who they say are American troops (and they certainly look like they could be) ... they are also repeating them a lot. Not sure if AJ is still available on Sky but you certainly wouldn't find any British broadcaster showing the pictures I've been watching on the feed today.


Why don't the TV stations broadcast images of this kind? It may bring home to people what is being done in their name. They have no such qualms with holywood gore so why hold back when it's the real thing


Because with the real thing there are real families who have real feelings.


They don't have to be identifiable. Anyway with all this live coverage it's only a matter of time before someone gets shot dead while on air.
SM
smw
Marcus posted:
smw posted:
Marcus posted:
NickyS posted:
TVDragon posted:
Under what circumstances was Terry's body shown on al Jazeera? How was it available to be seen? That's quite frightful.

.

I really don't know if they did show it or not but I have to say that Al-Jazeera have been showing lots of pictures of the dead bodies of who they say are American troops (and they certainly look like they could be) ... they are also repeating them a lot. Not sure if AJ is still available on Sky but you certainly wouldn't find any British broadcaster showing the pictures I've been watching on the feed today.


Why don't the TV stations broadcast images of this kind? It may bring home to people what is being done in their name. They have no such qualms with holywood gore so why hold back when it's the real thing


Because with the real thing there are real families who have real feelings.


They don't have to be identifiable. Anyway with all this live coverage it's only a matter of time before someone gets shot dead while on air.


Well what do you suggest they show? The odd leg perhaps, or a bit of arm?

A bit tasteless.
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TVDragon
smw posted:
Well what do you suggest they show? The odd leg perhaps, or a bit of arm?

A bit tasteless.


Well they keep showing pictures of those pieces of body splattered onto the top of a tent, or whatever, where that US soldier allegedly threw a grenade into a tent at the 101st Airborne -- called 'fragging' isn't it? Strange term.

In reply to NickyS, I used to have al Jazeera on Sky, when I still had the Sky World thingybob, but since downgrading, it hasn't been there. I can't be certain if the two are connected, but I know al Jazeera is now encrypted on my digibox.
RR
RR
al Jazeera is now scrambled and is part of an expensive pay package on Sky Digital.
FU
fusionlad Founding member
Lorna Dunkley working with Bob Friend tonight. Is this the first time Lorna's been on since the war started?

It will be interesting to see how she does.
:-(
A former member
Bogaboy19 posted:
NBC News has said that Terry Lloyd, ITN journalist, and 2 other members of his crew are missing. The cameraman Daniel demoinster managed to scape, he was interviewed, according to him,they were under a ferocious gunfire by a Iraqui truck. At the moment is not clear what happened to Terry Lloyd and the members of the crew; they may be captive.

Also a journalist died in northern Iraq in the town of Halabja.It was a suicide bomb.



MSNBC have this little item in their bulletins called 'the listening post' where a presenter gives a couple of pieces from other networks or print - i think it's basically a means of what they've picked off monitoring or something. Anyway last night they were talking about a battle for Ummm Qasar or Nassiriyah or something and that Sky's presenter David Bowden/Colin Brazier - I can't remember which they said had details, and what did they play? The clip of the cameraman Daniel D. from ITN who managed to escape the attack on the ITN crew - it was unrelated to what they were actually trying to explain - I was astonished as surely the video had an ID on it or something....anyway thought some people might be interested in this cock-up...
NG
noggin Founding member
smw posted:
Marcus posted:
NickyS posted:
TVDragon posted:
Under what circumstances was Terry's body shown on al Jazeera? How was it available to be seen? That's quite frightful.

.

I really don't know if they did show it or not but I have to say that Al-Jazeera have been showing lots of pictures of the dead bodies of who they say are American troops (and they certainly look like they could be) ... they are also repeating them a lot. Not sure if AJ is still available on Sky but you certainly wouldn't find any British broadcaster showing the pictures I've been watching on the feed today.


Why don't the TV stations broadcast images of this kind? It may bring home to people what is being done in their name. They have no such qualms with holywood gore so why hold back when it's the real thing


Because with the real thing there are real families who have real feelings.


I would be interested on the ITC's view of Al Jazeera showing these pictures if they are uplinked to Astra or Eurobird (the "Sky Digital" satellites) under ITC licence. It might put them in breach... I know BBC World had to be careful to comply with ITC taste and decency guidelines when broadcasting the Clinton hearings a few years ago...
NS
NickyS Founding member
smw posted:
Marcus posted:
smw posted:
Marcus posted:
NickyS posted:
TVDragon posted:
Under what circumstances was Terry's body shown on al Jazeera? How was it available to be seen? That's quite frightful.

.

I really don't know if they did show it or not but I have to say that Al-Jazeera have been showing lots of pictures of the dead bodies of who they say are American troops (and they certainly look like they could be) ... they are also repeating them a lot. Not sure if AJ is still available on Sky but you certainly wouldn't find any British broadcaster showing the pictures I've been watching on the feed today.


Why don't the TV stations broadcast images of this kind? It may bring home to people what is being done in their name. They have no such qualms with holywood gore so why hold back when it's the real thing


Because with the real thing there are real families who have real feelings.


They don't have to be identifiable. Anyway with all this live coverage it's only a matter of time before someone gets shot dead while on air.


Well what do you suggest they show? The odd leg perhaps, or a bit of arm?

A bit tasteless.

I sometimes tend to think that British and American TV coverage is too sanitised ... you only have to see what German/French TV News are prepared to put out. I also know that BBC World sometimes show more graphic pictures that domestic BBC - that's more down to the time that the bulletins go out rather than anything else. I have seen pieces go out with dead bodies in and I remember a piece from the Middle East where you saw a young boy being killed in front of your eyes ... in the end the BBC broadcast the footage but with the pictures frozen before the actual moment - which was very effective without actually showing the moment of death. It is a case of taste and decency - the pictures on Al-Jazeera of the bodies was not nice - it was very very graphic. Yes I've seen as bad or worse on agency picture feeds but I don't think I've seen them just put on air and repeated quite so often. I know as a journalist watching stuff like this you sometimes become 'used' to seeing things like this but when you take a step back from it all you do have to think what the general public would make of them if they went out on BBC1 or Sky.
And as you to point about being killed live on air - I think that could be a real problem. But I have to say you saw some caution yesterday when the pictures of the search on the river in Baghdad was taking place. There was a big explosion - and News 24 did pull away from the shots.
:-(
A former member
As I pointed out yesterday evening. The footage that was coming from Al Jazeer included a body on a stretcher that was identified as that of Terry Lloyd. ITN asked the UK networks to stop showing this footage for this reason.
LO
Londoner
NickyS posted:
But I have to say you saw some caution yesterday when the pictures of the search on the river in Baghdad was taking place. There was a big explosion - and News 24 did pull away from the shots.


Chris Eakin implied that they were showing those pictures on a 15-second delay in case anything 'unpleasant' happened
:-(
A former member
Oooh, looks like BBC News has finally allowed Philip Hayton back on BBC 1. To my knowledge any news specials have not included Hayton, even before this war began. Interesting that they've put Maxine on instead of Joanna.
JA
jamej
Newsroom posted:
Oooh, looks like BBC News has finally allowed Philip Hayton back on BBC 1. To my knowledge any news specials have not included Hayton, even before this war began. Interesting that they've put Maxine on instead of Joanna.


Phillip was with Sophie Raworth on a News Special on Saturday afternoon. But it was on BBC Two and BBC News 24.

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