IOL and The Star are completely classless.

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I'm referring to the photo on the front page of IOL.co.za captioned: "Stunned: A woman sits outside her brother's house in Glenvista after learning that he had killed himself"

To the editors and Jennifer Bruce who was the photographer - show a little human decency.
 
I don't think there's anything wrong with the photo (I haven't read the article though). It's no different from the many pictures of people's grief that all news agencys show (e.g screaming mothers grieving for their children killed during Israeli air raids in the West Bank).
 
I think the word you're looking for is 'tactless' - I tend to agree - having been through a similar ordeal, the last thing we would have wanted would be our faces strewn all over the media in our time of grief. I also don't see how this could possibly make front page news...
 
Why were the media there in the first place? Why was the suicide so publicised?
 
South African papers has adopted the creed "IF IT BLEEDS IT LEADS" THE VOICE and DIE SON here in Cape Town have been doing it since from day one. It's sad thing when newspapers don't give news but rather sensationalize to sell more papers. gone are the days of good reporting.
 
bex.cpt said:
South African papers has adopted the creed "IF IT BLEEDS IT LEADS" THE VOICE and DIE SON here in Cape Town have been doing it since from day one. It's sad thing when newspapers don't give news but rather sensationalize to sell more papers. gone are the days of good reporting.
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That's true... but newspapers have never been known for their class or compassion. They only sell more papers because we buy more papers. If blood and gore and tragedy sell it's because that is what we want to buy and see...
 
I can buy the whole grieving victims of a war being newsworthy since large armed conflicts are news and they portray the suffering felt by innocent people. This photo just felt like a violation of a deeply personal tragedy that had no business being exploited for cheap materialistic gain. It just rubbed me up the wrong way.
 
It is journalism - I have no problem with that. Some of the greatest shots ever taken are fairly harrowing to look at (Kevin Carters vulture snap anyone?)
What is infuriating is that the picture itself is very poorly captured which does make it tacky...
 
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