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TV News showing funerals, is it in bad taste?

  • 25-07-2014 12:28pm
    #1
    Hitchens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,063 ✭✭✭


    Just looking at the 1 o'clock TV News on RTE and they show footage which caused me to move to different part of the building to avoid it.

    Why do they show this? Does it help the poor families involved in some way?


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  • #2
    solomafioso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭solomafioso


    Oh dear! Are you ok? Must have been terribly tough for you....to watch...


  • #3
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    U ok hun? Xx


  • #4
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Could you not have just changed the channel for a moment?


  • #5
    eviltwin
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    Hitchens wrote: »
    Just looking at the 1 o'clock TV News on RTE and they show footage which caused me to move to different part of the building to avoid it.

    Why do they show this? Does it help the poor families involved in some way?

    I presume you mean the two brothers who died in tragic circumstances? Yes its disgusting, as if that family hasn't gone through enough of an ordeal without the bloody media invading their privacy. I don't understand why funerals are even news, we don't need to know that stuff.


  • #6
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    It is bad taste in my view. Do you think the family's permission would have been sought by RTE or whoever?


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  • #7
    wretcheddomain
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    eviltwin wrote: »
    I don't understand why funerals are even news, we don't need to know that stuff.

    People are dying to see it.


  • #8
    Hitchens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,063 ✭✭✭Hitchens


    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    Could you not have just changed the channel for a moment?

    I was having my lunch in a pub so I just moved away from the TV


  • #9
    Buzz Killington the third
    Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Buzz Killington the third


    It's not as bad as showing a kardashian wedding.


  • #10
    vitani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    Yeah, there can be something very crass about reporting on funerals. I remember during the funeral of those two little boys that were killed by their father about a year ago, the Independent started live-tweeting updates along the lines of 'the mother walks along behind the hearse, supported by friends'. As if it was a red carpet event or something.


  • #11
    Donkey Oaty
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    vitani wrote: »
    'the mother walks along behind the hearse, supported by friends'.

    Mawkish stuff. Were they expecting her to be on a unicycle in front of the hearse, supported by enemies?


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  • #12
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    It's not news viewing the "private" grief of a family. Tasteless and voyeuristic....


  • #13
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    vitani wrote: »
    Yeah, there can be something very crass about reporting on funerals. I remember during the funeral of those two little boys that were killed by their father about a year ago, the Independent started live-tweeting updates along the lines of 'the mother walks along behind the hearse, supported by friends'. As if it was a red carpet event or something.

    that's the indo for you.taking photos of distressed parents clutching photos of their kids at the scene of their death was just as crass.


  • #14
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,218 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I know in my town they've being a few funerals that the news wanted to cover. If the family requested them to stay away. They did.


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