To think "news" websites should not be showing videos of those who died in the ill fated hot air balloon as they got into the basket and chatting to the camera person?

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A friend has just taken great delight in showing me a video on the bloody sun website of all things of the hot air balloon "safety briefing" and the people who died. All those excited smiling faces waving at the camera, chatting away to each other and not realising what was ahead in under an hour really got to me and I am wondering what on earth is the point of showing this on their website? I purposely haven't linked to it because it really upset me and I am wondering what their families must think too. I just find it in such bad taste and wanted to vent about it. Is it just me but is it in really bad taste?

Yes its bad taste.

Showing the video of Reeva Steenkamp driving into the complex hours before her death was also in bad taste.

It's horribly voyeuristic. But I expect nothing less from The Scum.

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I remember when I was a kid seeing the NASA explosion and the families were being filmed as they watched the rocket blow up with their loved ones inside. My Mother made a comment that Americans were sick to show this on the TV and you should respect their privacy, not splash it all over the news. I feel the same way now over so many things.

The last straw for me was seeing the news at lunchtime showing a hall being used as a morgue in Afghanistan full of bodies wrapped in sheets. Feet sticking out and the lot. dd (5 at the time) "Are those people all dead Mummy?" LUNCHTIME FFS! You don't need graphic images of suffering shoved in your face to still realise the horror. If you do, humanity has really lost it and I mourn.

It's similar to people rubber necking on a motorway.

People like the macabre.

YANBU

Yanbu-never understood the obsession with showing every last part leading up to someones death or sometimes even showing them dead!
Sick & pointless imo, but this is the newspaper that uses minority scum of society to potray life on benefits...

TBH - on the news doesnt bother me, I seem to remember plenty of footage of the IRA blowing us to smithereens as a child, the aftermath and the people staggering out. Ditto 9/11. Ditto the West Bank. Ditto Vietnam. And every other skirmish and war we've ever been involved in, or not, in between.

Half term, every other advert on daytime TV is of a flyblown 3rd world baby with a commentary looking for your money, pitched during childrens programmes.

You do become desensitised through over exposure

Yanbu. Some of the news website were showing stills from that taxi driver in SA who was tied to the police van and dragged. disgusting

I have no wish to ever be desensitised so YANBU

Yes I skipped those stories where-ever they cropped up online. to me the balloon accident is what I would expect to happen if I ever went up in one so have always refused to do one. I saw Enduring Love www.imdb.com/title/tt0375735/reviews in 2004 and it freaked me out totally.