Are the media being unprofessional re Air India crash?

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The Air India crash has at one survivor (so far). Heard that the media are bombarding the relatives of this survivor. I find this unprofessional and harassing, especially when the survivor’s brother was on the same flight.

I wish the media will stop trying to get stories from anybody as sensational. It’s not.

Also no need for news specials with presenters asking questions to correspondents and experts who don’t know the answer as the info hasn’t been available etc. Then rephrase it. Again so unprofessional.

Just watching bbc and screaming at the reporter to stop harassing the relatives of the man who has survived. The reporting seems so voyeuristic

I agree. He will be in shock. It's horrible to take advantage of him when he's so vulnerable

I've also seen some media outlets posting videos from 2 men who were posting from the airport before they got on the plane. Absolutely horrendous behaviour

Awful.

Completely ghoulish and exploitative.

you should see the comments under Daily Mail articles about this. I know racism is ten a penny on there but this is really something else. Absolutely evil stuff.

I just watched that interview and it was really uncomfortable. I mean the guy must have agreed to do it but you could see he was struggling to keep it together and the reporter just kept pushing.

Yes. I was wishing they'd leave that bloke alone in Leicester.

I’ve just said this when watching the BBC news tonight.
The relatives are clearly very traumatised and the journalist is persistently asking the most stupid in appropriate questions.

It’s like American journalism where they interview children and passer-by neighbours and family members! Just fucking in appropriate and not what the BBC normally do.

It’s disgusting quite honestly.

Vulture mentality. R.I.P beautiful people.

Totally agree. This poor family have suffered the most unimaginable tragedy today. The press is so excited about the "sole survivor" story that they have completely lost sight of his own grief and fear for his brother and that his entire family are feeling the same way.
The cannot celebrate his survival yet as they've just lost another son

Utter scum

Also why do the presenters in the studio expect the correspondents to know EVERYTHING as soon as it happened.

It's certainly unethical.

It’s grotesque, so much so my husband has complained to OFCOM this evening.

The media have always been like this their vile

I know someone who is friends with the crew on board.

They have had no less than 14 messages from press on social media.

Its absolutely abhorrent.

Yes, it isn't a very kind job. Vultures.

Such a horrific tragedy, all those people dead, very sad.

I usually read news rather than watch it for this (and other) reasons. RIP all those poor souls.

Its not new. The media are like this at any tragedy. Asking bereaved families idiotic questions & reporters talking drivel to pad out their reports

Theyre a disgrace

At one point it was on BBC1, at 7pm so on the 6pm news then again for another hour's "special". Plus ITV and Channel 4, all at the same time

What more is there to say? It is a horrific tragedy and families will be waiting for news if their loved ones are dead or injured.

It is not (or shouldn't ever be) a spectator event.

I’m so so shocked at this and all the vile racist comments being bandied around on social media today. I despair 😔

Absolutely. I switched it off too.

Years ago my fiance died in a train crash, reporters stayed for hours on my doorstep even though my parents had asked them to leave. Photographers then used a long lens camera to record me waiting for news at a meeting for the bereaved families even though they had been told to keep away. The footage was shown on the evening news. Most reporters have zero care or respect for anyone.

Thinking of all those families that have lost loved ones today.

I had to turn the BBC special off, the way the reporter was hassling the survivors cousin was awful

I was saying exactly the same thing, while watching that interview,.and I'm a journalist.

i Wish the police would disperse the media from an area. Harassment.