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.

Exactly the same on ITV.

Oh, God. That poor family. The poor young brother reeling with shock and the camera poking in the door at a cluster of shellshocked family, including their mum…

Perhaps mumsnetters ought to stop reading and sharing links from the mail.
I always avoid them, and it usually tells me that the user has no emotional intelligence.

Just stop associating with and reading trash.

Sky News were just awful interviewing the brother of the survivor, even though he had just lost his other brother hours earlier. Awful. He wouldn’t have been in the right state of mind to agree to an interview, totally taking advantage of a family member in complete and utter shock. The grieving Mum was insight of where they were filming 😩

Embarrassing journalism from Sophie Ridge too - asking an expert if the survivor could have jumped before the plane crashed. It’s something (understandably) a child might ask, but not an intelligent adult.

In America, sadly, we have had many mass shootings. It’s horrifying and terrifying.
They get reported monthly, often only briefly.
Almost the same news on every major news outlet. I’m certain of that because I live in America and I watch and read them.
Nobody competes for attention on that shitty news. And we react as Austria has reacted.
If msn chooses to refer to that as sensationalism or whatever they said, instead of focusing on our nation’s abhorrent gun laws, that’s the freedom of the press, as it should be.

some on this thread are just as bad! Reposting what they’ve seen and heard and moaning about it being said in the first place….the irony!

I tried to do this, but it said I had to put in a complaint with the BBC first. How did your husband manage it, because I would also like to file a complaint?

I turned over to BBC to find out what had happened and I was so disgusted by the exploitative and ghoulish questioning of family members that I turned it straight off. Awful.

It's horrible how the reporters are behaving. Totally inappropriate. And the comments online are next level awful too. A few years ago people would have been ashamed to say such things. The racists are now dangerously emboldened.

It was when the media were not believing there was a survivor, that’s when I switched off the radio. I thought he’s survived and needs to be spoken of respectfully.

Media will be bored of the story in two days’s time, for others it will last a lifetime.

He complained about SKY and went directly onto the OFCOM website where he tells me there is a section named “make a complaint”. Sorry I can’t be of more help.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint%20Summary

Thanks for your reply and no need to apologise. I have put in a complaint on bbc website

The racism is not at all surprising to me as an Asian.
People are incredibly racist and don't even bother to hide it. It has become acceptable. We are all illegal, claiming benefits and council homes, that only they should be entitled to and at the same time stealing jobs they'd get if only they'd stop the boats.
I didn't even bother reading comments in the dm as I knew as soon as I saw pictures of those that died in the hijab it would fuel the racists.
All those of you considering voting for the likes of Reform, do so if you wish but KNOW you are voting for a party that IS racist and is more than happy to fuel the anti brown/Muslim /immigrant rhetoric to get in to power. And if you actually think they will do anything other than make things a heck of a lot worse you are delusional.
Not the point of the thread but the number of people shocked at the racism is surprising. Did some of you think when they were spouting there nonsense they had a bit of a point? And that we were "playing the race card" when we called it out?
Anyway yes the media are vultures. Everything they print should be taken with a large dose of salt (a grain is insufficient), they have no morals, ethics or empathy. The fact they still refer to themselves as journalists is ludicrous.

Nor me.

The Guardian also had that video of the plane going down with no warning as to what it was, indeed the video was labelled video of crash site. I clicked on it assuming it would show, well, the crash site but no it was the plane going down and 200 people meeting their deaths. Inexcusable to put that video up and with no warning as to the content. It was later changed

Let me guess... the daily fail by any chance ?

Sky news asking the brother of the two brothers onboard, “how do u feel?” Exactly after he described how he feels……
well how the fk do u think this guy feels? How would YOU feel!!! 🤡
I despair at the world. Humanity is lost for storylines.

I saw that and was shocked that she chose to repeat that particular detail. She could have just skipped over it. Appalling.

Totally shocked watching the BBC news tonight. The hounding of that poor family, repeatedly asking the cousin and brother how they feel, over and over again, it was shameful.

If you wonder why the country has issues and who the people voting Reform are in a lot of cases - reading the comments should bring you bang up to speed - and if you do vote that way ( and plenty of Tory’s have these views too) you might want to reassess your thoughts on the idea that most aren’t racist - just ‘concerned’. -

Yes, BBC Verify is sometimes an excellent idea, particularly when false accounts are given by dodgy governments, for example. But if we know it took off from that airport and crashed onto that building, you don't need to waste time and resources 'proving' what we know to be true. And the bits about 'how we verified it' are not as interesting as they think. Like the last 10 minutes of 'how we made this nature programme' 😀 That last comment might prove controversial 🤔🙂

Absolutely disgraceful and shouldn't be allowed. That BBC journalist should be ashamed of himself for how he behaved

Thank you. Complaint raised.