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?

My friend's grandad had a heart attack in the middle of that, and never recovered 😔

Unfortunately I am so old I remember most of these. The one that really got me was 9/11 I was off work with flu and just turned the tv on and thought I’d got a disaster movie …

The Southport killer and also the Nottingham one . Just horrendous.Taking young lives like that. My son was at Nottingham Uni at the time , it could have been him.

I remember seeing (or hearing-might have been radio) a survivor being interviewed after Zeebrugge, talking about their son or daughter and how they didn't know if they had escaped. During the interview the news came that they were safe and I remember their voice on the verge of a sob saying '(s)he's alive!'

Fiction - I was a big fan of Juliet Bravo when I was very little. No idea why I was watching police procedurals at 7/8 but a young officer called Danny died in a fire. I was really shocked that they would kill a character and remember being illogically scared that he would be dead in our (avocado green) bathtub.

It’s got to be 9/11 for me. I remember it vividly. Sunny afternoon in the uk. I can remember kneeling on the living room floor watching it on the TV. I was living at home with my mum and dad but at uni so it must have been prior to the new term starting. I had a part time job at a local Travelodge as a cleaner in the holidays and I think I had come home from work and that’s when I saw it on the news.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-6-WyUkjrKA&pp=ygUYemVlYnJ1Z2dlIGZlcnJ5IGRpc2FzdGVy

Amazingly I found the Zeebrugge clip I mentioned- it starts at 7.20.

Oh my god yessssss

As some of the main ones have been mentioned :

• Dominic Cummings looking straight at the camera from that rickety table in the Downing Street garden and telling that ridiculous story about testing his eyesight. It showed how brazen the ruling party were and how stupid they thought we all were

• The x factor initial rounds where they would sometimes have quite clearly mentally ill or vulnerable people on just to mock them

I think the most viscerally shocking for me was the clip of the ice hockey player who had his throat slit a few years ago. That was brutal

The Beirut ammonium nitrate explosion in 2020 that wiped out an entire district and was the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. I was utterly gobsmacked by that.

Whereas before the referendum, we were just rudderless (with Cameron at the helm).

9/11 initially, however being born and bred in London, still living there at that time, 7/7 will always pain me. Especially because at the time as my dad worked on the underground. He didn’t live with us, so I remember trying to call him, he didn’t answer. At that point they hadn’t mentioned where all of the bombs were and my heart sank, he called me back about an hour later, the longest hour …. Turns out he’d been on the night shift and had left an hour before the first bomb.

Saddam Hussein being hanged on live tv. Regardless of any feelings about him/what he did, it was still shocking to see a live execution.

TV gold!

I remember working in the pub I supervised during 9/11. The next pub up the road was managed by the most miserable sour faced twat you'd ever have the misfortune to meet. I hated having to deal with him (we used to borrow/lend kegs and cases so dealt with him a fair bit). Trying to talk to him was an ordeal. Very abrupt, rude and snippy. If I had to give you an example of his behaviour imagine someone like the priest in Father Ted that accompanied Bishop Brennan to the Parochial House and was very rude and sarcastic especially to Mrs Doyle. Anyway on the day of 9/11 he comes running into the pub and he is positively brimming with excitement. I'd never seen a smile so wide. He comes up to the bar and he's tapping his nails and rings on the brass railing. He goes "Oh my God put on the news put on the news!" I ask why and he's going "Ooh you'll see!" and rubs his hands together in anticipation of my reaction. I'm intrigued and go to do so as I'm expecting some magical and heart warming event to be shown as I've never seen this fella look so upbeat and happy before. I put on Sky News just in time to see the second plane hit. The whole world has just witnessed the mass murder of hundreds of innocents and this miserable cunt can barely contain himself. He spent the rest of the afternoon propping up the bar and chit chatting like the friendliest bloke you could ever meet. So 9/11 always reminds me of him and I hate that 💔

The videos of Ken Bigley begging for his life, clearly terrified. They showed them on the news. That poor man and his poor family.

On a lighter note one of my favourite media events was the Tiffany Pollard monologue about Gemma Collins.

Pretty much I would let Gemma know
that she is a fat c*nt
and, um the shoes that she gave me were
not something that I would particularly
buy for myself.

They were old maiden type of shoes, and
she said that those shoes were meant to
be worn on a beautiful woman

So if that is the case she should have put
them back on the rack and she should
never even purchased them because she
was UNQUALIFIED to own those shoes if
that's the case

and, um I think that Gemma is just a
disgrac. She's a disgrace to women who are
actually beautfiul and classy and, um she
just doesn't have the vernacular she
thinks she possesses

Somebody lied to her several times and
told her that she was fly, hot and sexy
and beautiful and she's nothing like that
She's nothing of the sort

He didn't have shaved head. Iirc they killed him shortly after they got him. A week or so. Unless ISIS provided barbers who did perfect haircuts...
I remember saying to my DH that he was dead already for a while.
That was sadly terribly memorable as we have family around there.

7/7, especially as most of my family live and work in London and Grenfell. Until becoming a parent I struggled with getting emotional and very rarely got tearful at anything but I remember crying to my mum about Grenfell. I felt incredibly sad to think of everyone who was stuck in the tower, especially children.

Having grown up with 24 hourly news and social media, I honestly don’t think many things have truly shocked me — except for 9/11.

And Billy Connelly made a joke about it.

Yes, most affluent Southerners had no idea what immigration had done to areas they weren’t aware of. My DH voted to leave (he told me years later).

Most of the above I remember buy the news of James Bulger really is my earliest memory and i was young and his death was senseless. Shockingly evil & tragic. God Rest Him

Grenfell sticks in my mind being a Londoner in my youth growing up in the flats- horrific and preventable.

The Lansdowne Road football riot was shocking.

The bombing of the theatre in Mariupol with the writing so visible outside 'children inside". I just couldn't believe it. I feel like I lost my faith in humanity a bit that night.