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.

Yes I saw that and I found it really upsetting,their families will be distraught.

Horrendous coverage. I hope people put in complaints, it’s journalism at its worst. Vultures with no respect for relatives who are in total shock.

I accidentally voted YABU, I meant to click YANBU.

Yes, horrific, the survivor's family are in shock and anticipating grieving for the other brother, leave them in peace.

Watching the BBC coverage vs Channel 4 was insightful - Channel 4 went with concise reporting served up for adults. No wild speculation, just factual reporting.

Meanwhile the BBC Verify Team (as it is they) had compared aerial photographs of the uni halls with street shots to confirm what everyone else knew, that it landed on the uni halls - they had also verified that a bit of footage had been filmed from the airport, because er, it had been filmed from the airport. They then got a myriad of retired pilots who presumably had never flown this new model to postulate about how it crashed which may have been accurate or totally wrong - no one knows.

So on top of a huge human tragedy we learn yet again that BBC news is the televisual equivalent of the Daily Star (With apologies to the Daily Star)

I agree. I’ve just seen a BBC reporter (on their news channel) speaking to a relative who went to the crash site. He speaks in local language. She then translates to camera that he was trying to pull bodies out - and more graphic detail that I won’t type here.
There is no justification for that. Exploitative, disrespectful and no justification.
I switched over.

I saw a TikTok that was posted by two guys just before the flight. They filmed themselves as they waited for the plane. The TikTok was shown on The Daily Mails account. Imagine being one of their family or friends seeing the daily mail capitalizing on their very very recent death. I think that’s sick. The press can be disgusting.

The TikTok just showed up on my account, I DONT follow the Daily Mail.

(sorry, I just noticed that other posters have already commented on this.)

I thought this too, imagine learning that your family members had been in a fatal crash, one has survived but the other is still missing and reporters are knocking on your door, just awful. It shouldn't be allowed.

BBC and Sky, indistinguishable gutter press.

People watch it so they do it

I agree OP.

I must admit I was shocked that a photo of him in his hospital bed was released , I mean jeez give the guy some privacy .

Yes, so was I.

Other news outlets have been showing the same video, not just the DM.

It’s very voyeuristic and unnecessary.

Also the racist comments I’ve seen on some of the articles, people are so awful at times.

The bbc homepage had a video of the plane going down. I mean, why? So people can gawp at the imminent death of all those people? So goulish. I think the bbc used to be better than this?? Now it's getting to be like Yahoo News (which is a pile of unprofessional shite). This tragedy seems to have brought out the worst side of humanity where the press are concerned, and we have to breathe the same oxygen as these horrible 'journalists'. No conscience, no integrity, just a bunch of roaches feeding off the grief and terror of others.

Why on earth are idiots making racist and homophobic comments, apart from being utter twats. What have those poor people done to deserve that. The photo of the two lads holding their dog got me. Those girls were beautiful as well. So bloody awful.

As with any event of this magnitude, the media jump to blanket coverage, which pretty much involves repetition, intrusive interviews and speculation.

The interview with the much younger brother of the survivor was cringe worthy and appalling. There is no need to say the same things over and over; no need to have respondents all over the world and no need to be voyeuristic.

The only useful information comes from industry experts who can speculate with some knowledge, about possible causes. Otherwise it’s just unpleasant.

Yes, that's the next thing, speculation about the cause. Let's hope there's no ridiculous conspiracy theories.

I honestly wish the over consumption of news media would go out of fashion.

Yes, that journalist seemed to barely contain her glee as she described really graphic and unnecessary descriptions of the bodies.

I too felt the interview with the relative felt exploitative.

I actually haven't watched bbc news for years but for once thought I'd watch it over channel 4. It really has gone to complete sensationalist shit.

Absolutely! I had a colleague who was on the plane with his family and some of the news coverage is quite upsetting. Not to mention the videos on TikTok of the few named British citizens and some of the disgusting racist comments towards them.

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The racism is just beyond belief.

The BBC have been going down the plughole for years - the Pandemic made them, much, much worse - they think (very incorrectly) that they are the superior news outlet. In my mind, as far as TV news that's been C4 for decades.

I remember fondly when the BBC news was just that, non nonsense reading of the stories, no hacks giving their opinions or interviews postulating over this and that with random "experts", anything to fill their 24 hour rolling news hell which is thankfully not a channel you can easily accidentally land on.

The reporting does seem very intrusive and way over the top. Leave people alone!!!

Me too and me too! (And my husband who is also a journalist)