What media moment has shocked you the most?

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Just wondering what media moment has stuck with you or genuinely shocked you the most?
Mine was watching Jade Goody, a 27-year-old mum of two, being told she had cancer on television. I still remember it vividly — it felt so raw and personal. I couldn’t believe they aired something so heartbreaking, and it’s always stayed with me. Though I must have watched it on the news as I believe it was the Indian Big Brother?
What about you? Was there a news story, reality show moment, interview, or anything else that really shook you?

“Wrong David”!

Waking up one morning to find Princess Diana had been killed in a car crash.

9/11. I was at the gym without headphones when the news broke and the images were all over the TV screens there and I initially thought they were playing that “Independence Day” movie then everyone crowding around the screens tipped me off it was a real life news story.

9/11 is the obvious one. Can still vividly remember seeing it on tv, and in particular the bright blue sky.

Regarding shocking, what jumps to mind is the tv series Spooks, where they killed off a leading character in one of the first few episodes in a graphic way. I complained to the BBC about it (I know that’s fiction, but it jumped to mind).

Other than the obvious 9/11 and Princess Diana's death, the very first one I recall as a kid was the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding shortly after it was launched. Many people were watching it live on TV when it happened and it obviously killed all 7 people aboard.

Hillsborough. Before they “lost” the footage
9/11 The western world has never recovered IMO

Death of Diana, 9/11.

@Steelworks Lisa Faulkners character? I still remember that.

re Jade Goody the old style reality TV was brutal. Seems incredible that was deemed entertainment less than 20 years ago.

Yes, Lisa Faulkner .

The Brexit result. Naively I never thought any normal person would want to leave the EU. I felt sick, scared and tearful and then Cameron resigned and I just felt we were venturing into the unknown rudderless. Turned out we were!!

Princess Diana dying. Her funeral was the day I got married

9/11, I still remember seeing it on the wall tv’s at work. Stood watching after the first tower was hit, then watching live as the second plane hit

Kings Cross fire, I can’t begin to imagine how awful that must have been

Hillsborough

Fred & Rose West (I lived in Gloucester at the time)

waking up to go to school, and hearing on the radio about the start of the Falklands War

Mine is the Lansdowne Road football riot in Ireland. A far right group stated a riot at an England- Ireland football game. English fans got the blame but it wasn’t the real fans. There was news footage of a little blond boy of about eight, he was stood hugging his dad and just staring at the riot. He looked so scared. Really horrible night

Zebrugge was I think the first one I can remember and Lockerbie

As an adult - all the above mentioned ones, as well as Grenfell and more recent attacks like Southport and Ariane Grande.

As a child - the JFK assassination. I was only 8 or 9 but I knew from the reactions of adults that it was momentous. Oddly enough, I have far hazier recollections of the moon landing when I was older.

Being told we were going into lock down. I was living abroad at the time and listening to President Macron speaking it almost had an apocalyptic feel too it. The fear of the unknown I think.

9/11 and the Grenfell tower fire. Horrible feeling seeing it on the news

Can you expand?

Zeebrugge ferry disaster, seeing the people stood on that boat was devastating, even though I was only young.

Seeing the Jordanian piolit in a cage kneeing, his head shaved,being burned to death in 2015 by IS

Only part of the video was shown but the absolute horror of it stays with me.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-31121160

911, the Boxing Day tsunami and Dunblane are the ones that stick in my mind as the most shocking.

The first reports from Lockerbie when something massive and horrific had clearly happened but reporters didn't seem to know exactly what had caused it yet - absolutely terrifying end of the world / alien invasion vibes

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-35299717

Zeebrugge
River Phoenix death
Kurt Cobain death
Chernobyl

OJ Simpson car chase - first thing I remember ever seeing on a live steam

Madeleine McCann breaking news
Princess Diana death
Michael Jackson death
9/11
Queen Elizabeth II death

Such shocking news events put a crease in the page of the book of your life and you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you heard.

Goodness yes, Dunblane 😔

Prince Andrew in Pizza Express