to tell granada tv to get lost?

[biddysmama]

my neighbour is the mum of one of the soldiers that dies this week, granada tv are knocking on our doors asking questions, poor womans grieving and they are banging on doors for a news story :(

I'd tell them where to go

Taxi for them. To the far side of fuck. One way. Send me the bill.

Insensitive twunts.

Media piss me off with things like this, I know they want their story but they forget that people are effected by these stories and dont think about them.

i would say telling them to get lost would be the polite version of what I would be telling them to do.

If you don't want to talk to them just say to politely.

I think it is important that the stories of soldiers who die in Afghanistan are told. And that they are shown to be human beings, with families, friends, hobbies, interests, a huge gap that is left behind. Otherwise it is just a number and people can find it easier to ignore the human toll of the war.

Some bereaved parents want to talk to pay tribute to their sons or daughters. Some don't. I don't think it is wrong for people in the media to ask them if they want to talk, and to ask friends and neighbours. Anything to bring home the reality of the cost of this dreadful war.

They should go through the army to talk to them though. The family shouldn't have to be turning away numerous journalists from the doorstep

But the army can't give the information that makes these people humans - sons, fathers, brothers, friends - rather than soldiers or just a number

It is a news story! The media should bring these deaths to the publics attention! Poor young men, the bloody prime minister should be on the news everytime a soldier gets killed showing his sympathy and support , it would take two minutes out of his schedule!

People moan that more news is given to a celebs death than a soldiers. If they don't talk to people there is nothing to say, if they are harrassing the family that's different but asking people if the knew him, not so much.

MrsCurly - the army can liase with the family to find out what level of coverage they want. The family are the important ones and their wishes have to be respected.

Yes they should have their needs respected. I'm not disputing that. But the OP is complaining about the neighbours' doors being knocked on.

If they are after the neighbours though that still means they cant leave the house without seeing them and you can pretty much guarantee having cameras flashing at them and microphones under the nose.

Unless the family want it then the media should stay well away from their home and local area.

I know people who have had journalists camped out on their front garden in order to get a story and thats not on.

Banging on the door Birdsmama? Are you sure they weren't just knocking?

I knocked on probably 100 doors of grieving relatives in my 10 years as a local reporter. I have only ever had one negative reaction (from the family of a drug dealer). Most families welcome me in, enjoy the chance to talk of their relative and are appreciative that the wider public care about the person who has died. I have countless thank you cards from such families, and not one complaint. In my experience, it is always the neighbours and well-meaning friends who create a song and dance about death knocks.

You might want to read this www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/mar/28/phone-hacking-leveson-inquiry

*Biddysmama. Apols, my autocorrect chanced your name.