Insensitive Sky TV...

[fluffybiscuits]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq9kFPknoqE&feature=g-logo-xit"]Kay Burley's insensitivity - full clip - YouTube[/ame]

Kay Burley tells the parents of that girl April who is missing that its now a murder investigation. Has TV stooped to new lows? Discuss...

[jinnyjoe]

Sorry Fluffy but that was not the parents of April, they were two locals who were heavily involved in the search for April, they came back from a search and were greeted by Kay with this news. Yes a tad insensitive anyways. Sky provide excellent reporting on issues that are grabbing the country (and world) but tend to go over the top at times. I can only imagine they were a complete nightmare for the professional rescue teams with their cameras and microphones also.

[C. Flower]

The whole reportage of this is a bit ghoulish, but in the first few days, there is always the hopes of finding a child, so publicity, either tv or social media, is one way of extending a search.

[homer]

That was really crass conduct by the TV reporter. Sky were worse to show it.

Police have people trained in imparting such bad news, giving people some time and space to adjust, rather than doing so in the fulll glare of TV cameras, Sky should have stayed away until that was done.

I had a tragedy in my own family years ago. For a while there was hope, but I still recall how sensitive the Gardai concerned were in telling me the actual position.

[fluffybiscuits]

Sorry Fluffy but that was not the parents of April, they were two locals who were heavily involved in the search for April, they came back from a search and were greeted by Kay with this news. Yes a tad insensitive anyways. Sky provide excellent reporting on issues that are grabbing the country (and world) but tend to go over the top at times. I can only imagine they were a complete nightmare for the professional rescue teams with their cameras and microphones also.

Thanks for clearing that up. I was getting worried that was the parents whom had been told! It was extremely insensetive the way it was handled, Kay Burley did herself no favours. Never like Sky News myself, being from the Murdoch stable its pretty senstaionalist if you ask me..

[bernadette]

Sky News always seems to have a touch of The Sun about it, but Kay Burley is not a bad presenter.

I think the pressure to get results to film tears flowing must be huge on reporters.

[Count Bobulescu]

I pointed out recently in another thread that Sky News has the same corporate owner as the Sun and Fox News in the US, our good friend the bould Rupee. It should be clear by now that insensitivity is part of the package when you deal with Rupee.

Fox, who specialize in showing police chases on slow news days, recently even went so far as to (accidentally) show the final moments of a helicopter chase live on TV, where the guy gets out of the car puts a gun to his head and pulls the trigger. They were roundly criticized for it and apologized. It is argued that they invite such mistakes by frequently showing these chases.

But they weren't the worst, arguably, they just made a mistake in not pulling the camera away quickly enough, whereas other news sites later posted the video in the full knowledge that it contained a suicide, and tweeted about it, in case you missed it the first time. Insensitivity, like sex, SELLS.

Here’s an NYT and a Slate report.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...-kill-himself/

http://www.slate.com/articles/techno..._youtube_.html