To be shocked by BBC's 6 pm news

[LittleSilver]

I have just turned it off.

They showed a woman in Haiti in advanced labour and an American medic of some sort completely losing it and yelling "I can't deliver a breech baby, I can't deliver a breech baby!". They kept zooming in and out on this poor woman. Am I alone in thinking this is an appalling breech of this woman's right to provacy and dignity and the BBC should be ashamed of themselves.

Now off to complain.

Oh georgi that picture.

You know when you see or read some things and know they will stay with you forever.

I guess that's why he won the prize.

georgi and imsonot

your comments(and link) are so relevant.

so much tragedy around the world and where should the line be drawn...between informing us so that we take action, and exploiting us?

Fibilou, we don't know that the labouring woman did not give her consent. But the news clip started away from the scene of the labour, dealing with something else, then she started screaming (and the medic started shouting)and the reporter ran, yes RAN to where she was labouring in order to film it. So I don't think she did give her consent. But, in any case, for consent to be valid it has to be voluntary and informed. I would question whether these conditions would have been met under the circumstances.

I also thought it highly inappropriate for 6pm. My DDs are not allowed to watch television, and I am glad they did not see that clip.

It has just been announced that the UK has already donated £38 million to the Haiti disaster cause. I think people must have been incredibly upset by the coverage of the earthquake fund to have responded this generously. I am sure that no one wants to see this horror unfold as they tuck into your evening meal, but it has obviously done the trick. It is a news photographer's job to record the scene, not to drop their camera and help out (although they often do afterwards). Let your kids stick to Newsround - unfortunately the 'adult' news is as it always is - death, death and more death.

I find the images of survivors being dragged out of the rubble several days on and having a microphone shoved in their faces and being asked 'How do you feel? Did you think you would be rescued?' as tasteless as the images of people dying and picking through the wreckage to recover bodies of loved ones. Give them some dignity please.

Does anyone remember Drop the Dead Donkey? The reporter Damien Day (played by Stephen Tompkinson - lovely bloke, worked with him) was one who would stop at abslutely nothing to get a story no matter how distasteful. Then it was funny because it was so extreme, now they're actually doing it!