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?

Most of these aren’t ’media moments’ They are major news articles.

Anyway I’d agree with David’s dead, it was like watching a car crash in slow motion

Also the Prince Andrew interview

It was but to be honest and this sounds awful, you got used to the murder and mayhem. There is a public inquiry into the Omagh bomb ongoing at the minute and the survivors and family of those murdered were able to speak about their experiences. Would bring tears from a stone. The family of the murdered twins said they has already been named, 2 girls. All they have of them is the scan pictures. That really got me 😢.

You're right, you definitely get used to it living here

And didn't realise the pressure you were living under until peace came. Even if you had no close friends or relatives murdered, those of us who lived through The Troubles could all write a book about bit.

There have been some shocking moments over the years and one of the stand out ones for me was Lee Rigby . Just awful .

The shootings in Huntingdon, Cambs; it’s well described in the autobiographical book by Dr Richard Shepherd as it was one of the first scenes he went to on his own as a forensic pathologist.

The Soham murders and the way Huntley and Carr lied to the media and police.

Shannon Matthew’s being found after being held, drugged, in the flat of a friend of her mother’s.

The death of the 6 kids of Mick Philpott who died because he set fire to his house

The Hungerford massacre, Herald of Free Enterprise, Ceaucescu’s murder in Romania, fall of the Berlin Wall, Dunblane, the very first Shuttle flight, the Hillsborough & Valley Parade disasters. All these stay with me.
There’s a fictional drama show that really affected me and I still think of it now. Threads. I grew up thinking our world would end with a Soviet nuclear bomb, and seeing my nightmare so graphically brought to life on screen was terrifying.

dunblane For me. I remember my class teacher coming back from lunch so visable upset and trying to get on with afternoon lessons but she was just crying. I was in last year of junior school so 11.

Live very close to there
I ended up in hospital on the day it happened

Was only 7 and had no clue really about the full gravity of it all

(Also grew up used to hearing all about the shooting and bonbs so it didn't even surprise me all that much in a way)

That was it for me too.
Also waking up to hear John Lennon had been shot. I remember both events very very clearly.

Hey I live near Enniskillen too

I thought of one the other day which was the rape scene in McMafia in the dessert. It haunted me. It wasn't necessary to show it that way.

DS was at home one afternoon and told me he had just heard on the radio that a plane had hit the twin towers so we put on the TV to see if there was any more news about it… I thought at first it was a only a small light plane, due to pilot error of some kind) only to see the second plane hit the tower a few minutes later, as it happened.
And we were still watching when both towers crumbled to the ground. It was almost unbelievable, so hard to grasp that it was real.
I just remember thinking it was the worst/most horrific thing I had ever seen on live TV. People died as we watched.
It was so shocking and momentous, you could not tear your eyes away.

I listened to this recently, it was fascinating and very moving. I strongly recommend it to you (actually the whole series, but this especially considering your comment)

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bjc4

On that day I remember watching the live news and there was someone with a camera - not sure a journalist or just a person with a phone, but the killer basically walked up to them, with the machete still in his hand, hands and arms covered in blood and other matter. Physically dripping off him.

The person just talked to them, I guess in an attempt to prevent any further death. I remember focusing on how shiny the blood was all over his skin. It was incomprehensible that it was real. I have never seen that footage again, nor do I ever want to.

October 7th. It was especially shocking as I knew Hamas and their supporters in Palestine wanted to murder Jews more than they wanted anything else, but seeing Shani Louk on the back of that truck with blood all over her lower half, battered and bruised from being raped, as men cheered, has haunted me.
Then watching how much support the attack got in the aftermath was devastating - and how pro-Hamas demonstrations went ahead on October 8th

Lots mentioned but the end of the Ceaușescus