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From 14 October 2013 (topic split) (October 2013)

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JA
Jasper
Colin Brazier and Sky News getting the dog's abuse on Twitter, for sifting through the luggage of one of the plane crash victims. Brazier realising too late that it is inappropriate to do such a thing.
MA
Markymark
Colin Brazier and Sky News getting the dog's abuse on Twitter, for sifting through the luggage of one of the plane crash victims. Brazier realising too late that it is inappropriate to do such a thing.


You are joking, right ? Shocked
VM
VMPhil
Unfortunately not.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/20/sky-news-presenter-brazier-mh17-luggage-crash
LL
London Lite Founding member
Totally unacceptable, yet on the RT scale of gross journalism it's nothing compared to what Life News in Russia and RT were showing on Thursday.
AS
ASO
When I heard about this earlier I gasped. It's simply disgusting to be honest. I just can't believe how someone could be so stupid.
DA
David
I wonder why no clips have turned up online.
LL
London Lite Founding member
David posted:
I wonder why no clips have turned up online.


I discovered that I have the 12 noon bulletin on my hard drive, so uploaded the incident on YouTube.

BA
bilky asko
David posted:
I wonder why no clips have turned up online.


The Guardian's screenshot is from a clip that was posted on Vine.

see here ……..

VINE.CO
20-Jul-2014 @ 21:05
DA
David
Which shows someone recording their TV screen and has no context at all. I wonder how many outraged people on Twitter have only seen this clip.
LL
London Lite Founding member
David posted:
Which shows someone recording their TV screen and has no context at all. I wonder how many outraged people on Twitter have only seen this clip.


That's what I thought. Up to that point, Colin was being really cautious, explaining to viewers why they didn't show the images of dead bodies etc. While what he did was wrong, it was live television and mistakes can happen which he made clear when he realised his mistake.
LR
Lost The Remote
Disgraceful. Why anyone would even waste their time trying to defend something so intrinsically wrong is beyond me. It doesn't matter that he stopped after a few seconds, he still did it live on air. And in the process offended many many people with his grossly insensitive reporting of an awful human tragedy.

Further evidence of the shocking decline in standards at Sky News. Don't tell me this would have happened a decade or so because it absolutely wouldn't. No doubt fodg09 will be along shortly to tell us how excellent the coverage has been overall.
AN
all new Phil
Further evidence of the shocking decline in standards at Sky News.

What other evidence of this is there?

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