Perhaps this should be in AIBU thread but I'm finding the way the news is reported is becoming increasingly cringeworthy (or something)

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I can't quite put my finger on it but when I watch the news the reports, or rather the way things are reported, make me feel uneasy. For example.
The air crash in the Alps. Dreadful, dreadful news but is it not rather ghoulish to film the grieving families, interview them or those close to them and ask fecking ridiculous questions? Focus on one particular aspect of it (3 were Britons! So! Does that mean the other 147 non Britons are less important?). The town where the schoolchildren came from, the BBC reporter asked a local policewoman if the town will ever recover from this. What sort of question is that to ask at a time like this? It's like milking every possible human emotion out of a situation for our entertainment!

Next, the Jeremy Clarkson thing. This isn't even news. Why is there so much of a furore about it? A man assaults another man in his work and is, of course, sacked. End of!

One Direction. A musician decides to change his career. Hold the front page!!!

The media are responsible for perpetuating the over dramatic, instant fix, quick move on to next story to such an extent it's almost lost all sense of reason.

I flick through the channels and the Internet sites. I'd personally like to prevent reporters sticking cameras in grieving relatives' faces and asking, how do you feel?

Almost all reporting these days is weird and stupid. But, a tiny proportion of it isn't. We, the audience, just have to work harder to find it.

I agree with how distasteful it is. Whenever there is a terrible tragedy, DH comments 'The media have erections again'. They seem to relish it... the more bloody and the more footage the better.

There was an article in the guardian written by one of the children from the school in Germany expressing shock at the way they were treated by the press. I will try and find it.

Here it is

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/01/school-tragedy-germanwings-crash-press-intrusion

How appalling.

I get very irritated by the continual rehashing of tiny details of the same four stories, as if that were the sum total of noteworthy things that happened in the world that day/week. It's just cheapskate 24 hour news. They increase the amount of time news is available but do not increase the amount of news coverage to actually fill all that air time.

There's also a serious ethical issue with journalism that focuses only on the negative things (the whole 'if it bleeds, it leads' thing). There is very good research evidence that this skews people's perception of the world in all sorts of problematic ways.