09-06-2024, 05:22 PM
(09-06-2024, 05:16 PM)Daveuk Wrote: Not sure if I’m just being over sensitive but the coverage of the search for Michael Mosley seems to have been getting very close to the line of intrusive and critical of the search.
Comments such as…
All we saw is one search and rescue team
Only one helicopter searching
Despite the mayor saying they are doing all they can, he admitted that a heat camera had not arrived.
It was a camera man that found the body, not the rescue team.
Close up on the body being stretchered out
Close up on his belongings being taken by the search team
Close up of his body being moved from one boat to another.
As I say might just be me, just didn’t sit right while watching today.
Must admit I had a similar thought about the coverage of this, this was Times Radio I was listening to but there was a comment along on the lines of "I saw the body and it's started to decompose which is not a nice sight see". Did we need to know that?
I think reporters are all together in their bubble on a single story and pushing each other for more information all the time. Really they need to take a step back and reflect. He's been found now and there's little more to this story to be covered other than it being a tragedy and remembering the man and his work in a dignified manner.