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?

I remember watching the Chilean miners story on tv. My daughter was a baby so I was on mat leave and I literally couldn't drag myself away watching each miner come out alive.

Luckily this story had a happy ending.

How nasty! I take it you have never watched the documentary about her which was on a few years back. She was incredibly beautiful as a young girl / woman Research her history and find the reason she comfort ate and put on weight.

All of the horrific ones.

But I also remember a lighter one - the announcement of who had won the bid for the 2012 olympics - all the tv crews ready to film the ‘Paris win’ and the comical film and footage of them all running over the London side when London got it.

TV footage of all of Royal weddings and very iconic footage of Diana with William outside the hospital and Kate with George. No woman should have to stand in front of the media after just having a baby and absolutely should not be facing that - but I remember both of them outside with the baby and the media footage and I have to say both of them looked amazing for just having given birth. I did remember being very happy to see both of them have safe arrivals.

I also remember Diana with the dress on the night Charles made his announcement about Camilla

Yes it was Celebrity Big Brother January 2016. David Gest was a .. guest.. /contestant in the house and had gone to his bed to lie down.

David Bowie’s ex wife was also a contestant and said “David’s Dead!”! when she heard Bowie died and another housemate (who I can’t remember) screamed “David’s dead!!!” thinking Angie Bowie meant their fellow housemate David Gest had died there and then in the bed. Housemate John Partridge then put them all right by saying

“Wrong David!”

Hillsborough. There was a girl at our halls who died. I listened to the radio reports in my room in hall.
September 11th. So much media about that.
The Manchester bomb. I heard that one.
The Manchester Arena bombing.
The Paris concert deaths.
Charlie Hebdo.

The boys trapped in the cave in Thailand
Think it was Thailand.

Dunblane, 9/11, London bombings and tsunami

The Manchester bombing
Dp and I had just moved in together and we didn't have much furniture (most of what I had had gone to the tip and he had fuck all)
We did have a TV but no sofa
Ds texted me 'mum,do not turn on the tv and do not panic'
So I freaked out while sitting on the floor and waiting for my really old,took an age to turn on TV to start
He was at a friend's flat not far from the arena and had heard the bomb go off and then screaming,so guessed it was some form of attack but didn't know what or exactly where
I remember messaging him,asking if he wanted us to drive up and get him and his friend out of Manchester but he refused as he was safe and Manchester would be rammed

A few days later (having bought a sofa) grenfell
I'd just turned on the TV and all it showed was a burnt out tower block and not much else-I worked out what had happened on the internet
I remember saying to dp 'what next?'

Princess Di
Dd was a tiny baby and my ex's sister just burst in with 'di's dead!' (I'd just woken up and wasn't really with it)
'Who?I don't know a di'
'Princess di!'
Then,it felt like the world went mad-i felt so sorry for the boys
Having their pain and grief on a world stage when all they would have wanted to do is hide away
The Queen took a lot of abuse that she shouldn't have done via the media for trying to be there for her grandsons and not the public

Along with the obvious ones mentioned, there was an episode of a program called Family Affairs in the late 90s where maybe 6 or 8 pp were killed in a boat explosion, including children.
And the scene I still feel shocked by is where they were following a remaining family member into the church and suddenly cut to all the coffins, utterly heartbreaking and shocking.

I know it wasn't real and I don't even remember the program but I was pregnant at the time so it made an impression on me!

Seeing Trump share that AI-generated Gaza video with the gold statues really shocked me. I was convinced it was fake news because I just couldn't believe it could be real.

I suspect the details of the 7 October stuff would be the most shocking to me but I've been avoiding reading too much for the sake of my own mental health.

Other than 9/11 and previously mentioned events, Challenger was huge at the time (watched it happen on UK telly) as it had previously stood for huge progression in the word of science and exploration and seemed like progress wouldn’t stop after the first shuttle launch in 1981 …in my lifetime, I don’t think anything was bigger than 9/11 personally and what it all stood for and the actual vulnerability it portrayed (still now and very much so the weeks and months straight after it) an attack of that scale on US soil was the stuff of bad movies until it was real. The reason they stand out for me (other than the sheer horror), was that I watched them live …surreal

I'm showing my age now. First of all, the death of Richard Dimbleby (the father of Richard and David). I was 4 years old and he died just after my teenage aunt who I adored. I couldn't understand why his death was on the news and hers wasn't.

The second one, which I am sure will have stuck with anyone who had a tv in the mid 60's, the Aberfan disaster. I don't know why I wasn't in school but I remember my mum and her friend crying, glued to the tv and I was stood in the doorway of the living room - not wanting to see it but not wanting to turn away.

Milly Dowler's phone being hacked by News of the World who deleted old messages (to make room for any new ones appearing) and in doing so gave her family & friends the false hope that she was still using her phone.

It was an additional level of awfulness to the horror of her having been abducted and murdered.

Jo

Watching the 2nd tower being hit live by a country mile.

Always wondered what percentage of the population saw that as it happened rather than heard about it and then saw it.

For nearly 10 minutes myself and my dad (who had Sky News on with Kay Burley presenting when it switched straight over to New York as there was a hole in one of the two towers so he called me in) debated what could have caused the plane to hit. We thought navigation error. We also thought small plane. To then see another plane, a passenger airliner, in the distance come down and then tilt left as it disappeared into the second tower, causing that enormous fireball; the most surreal moment ever.

At the time you don't even think about individuals in that. It's just a big plane going into a skyscraper, and the ultimate action scene you will ever witness. Later though when you see the people who were in the plane and the tower and you hear their voices, it personalised it and made it much more harrowing knowing you saw their last moments live.

Besides that, the Louise Woodward verdict. The gasps when "guilty" was announced. That same year Diana's death. Stayed up that Sunday morning to await news as the car crash had been announced about 4 hours before her death was announced. No celebrities death has been bigger in my lifetime. The whole week after was wall to wall coverage and then the funeral.

Actually yes the twin towers and seeing people jumping to their deaths will always haunt me.

Aw, hapoy memories for sure. I remember my now departed parents following this closely and being so thrilled to see them out. Apparently, they had a light down there and when the last mam came up he said 'I forgot to turn off the light', which tickled my DDad pink 😆 ❤️

This is a more cheerful memory, don't know why it's stuck in my head.
25 June 1967: The Beatles taking part in one of the first - if not the first - satellite broadcasts and singing All You Need is Love.
Also Winston Churchill's huge state funeral.
Thinking about it, my Dad had put our black and white TV on to watch these and maybe these memories are more about my Dad than the actual events.

A lot of mine have been mentioned already. One which hasn't is a propaganda video of a British boy (he was living in Kuwait with his family when the Iraqis invaded and they were being held as hostages), who was filmed with Saddam Hussein. Saddam was pretending to be a kind and benevolent presence. I was totally sickened by the exploitation of a young child and still remember it all these years later. He looked absolutely terrified.

That’s me in the picture: Stuart Lockwood with Saddam Hussein, 24 August 1990 Baghdad, Iraq | Photography | The Guardian

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I was watching the news when it reported that Diana had been in a car crash. Waking up the next day to find out she'd died was surreal.

9/11 - I was at work and my friend's mum would send us updates. Horrifying to find out the towers had collapsed.

Hillsborough - I was actually watching the match with my dad at the time. Absolutely heartbreaking.

Also, finding out that Rolf Harris and Stuart Hall were paedophiles! Wasn't surprised at Savile.

I remember being so shocked that the photo of their bodies was on the news and the front pages.

Oh my goodness, that story must have passed me by somehow. That's utterly grim

Oh gosh, Dunblane! I heard about it from a friend as we were standing at the primary school gates waiting to pick up our children - our daughters were the same age as the children who died. Oddly enough exactly the same age as I was at the time of the Aberfan disaster, which was probably the first media moment I remember.

Caroline flack dying. Really shocked me as I was poorly mentally at the time x