Derby Fire kills six - news reporting making me mad!

[radiohelen]

I am a journo and I can do dirty news with the best of them but this headline just leaves me feeling sooo sick! It's so judgemental, it's so insulting, it's so wrong...

"House Fire Family Agree To End Child's Life" news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16226990

The reporting on this whole story has been awful. To bring up Mick Philpott's Jeremy Kyle appearances and put links to youtube of the show on the same story as they report the deaths of five of his kids was sick but to make out he's "ending his child's life" makes him seem like some kind of monster.
FFS journo morons - where is your compassion - "Family agree to turn off life support" is the line you use and just hope to fuck that it doesn't ever happen to you!
This bad journalism only happens because there are no sub-editors for web stuff. It's probably time they employed a few.

the poor little lad is dead, I think this thread is awful tbh,
a family is devastated

radioHelen That is terrifying :( I wonder what happened? I haven't read much news about it tbh. There are some terrible, heartbreaking stories in the media at the moment.

I dont agree.

We had to take a decision about continuing treatment for DD.
She and us decided that she had enough and we stopped.

Her chances of surviving with more treatment were slim to nothing and her last days would have been appalling.

By stopping treatment we were not 'agreeing to let her die'
I would be utterly devastated if someone had written that about us.