Sky News and Charlie Hebdo - pathetic lack of solidarity

Clip of what happened when a Charlie Hebdo employee tried to show cover of the new issue on Sky News. Interview stopped and apology to viewers given!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbwcBYT0DI

It's hard to report on this story without showing the cover. The BBC have shown the cover in reports, with a warning beforehand, which I think is a fair compromise.

The media haven't quite decided where the line is between 'freedom of expression' , and 'freedom to offend ', tricky one in anyone's book, but we're no further forward with it, than we were last Wednesday .

Fair enough they've decided not to show the cover, but the way that interview was handled was done without any respect or solidarity. As mentioned the bbc have shown the cover but with a warning. Many things will cause offence, but I don't think it shouldn't be shown. Its a moral dilemma imo.

Here is a clip of a discussion of the incident later on Sky News.

http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2015/01/15/sky-s-job-is-to-broadcast-the-news-not-censor-it

post edited. just assumed that it was a new poster joining the site for the sake of cloning a thread from another site, couldn't tell on my clunky phone, many apologies

So???

What are you on about? That's a completely separate website with it's own completely separate discussion.

For the cynics among you, a reason for Sky News policy!:

http://order-order.com/2015/01/15/wake-up-and-smell-the-strong-arabica-coffee/

France 2 are reporting on Sky's banning of the Charlie Hebdo cover with a reporter in London.

I don't see what was done wrong. It was apologised for in that first clip?

STOP WATCHING SKY NEWS UNTIL THEY REVIEW THEIR EDITORIAL POLICY. The BBC are not afraid of the truth.... I expected better of Sky