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DILB
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Did anyone protest about the photographs of the butchered corpses of Uday and Qusay Hussein being shown? What about Saddam himself - his hanging was all but televised live. What about the Zapruder film, which shows John F Kennedy's head exploding when he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald? What about the people leaping to their deaths from the twin towers on 9/11? What about the fifty two people who died in the Bradford City football stadium fire? Many of their death agonies were caught on tape in horrifying detail. What about the ninety six football fans crushed to death, live on television at Hillsborough in 1989? What about the eighty six people who died when a Sukhoi SU27 fighter crashed on into the crowd during an airshow at Skniliv airfield in the Ukraine in 2002, or the seventy two killed at Ramstein in 1988 when three aircraft of the Italian aerobatics squad collided in midair and slammed into the crowd? All caught on film in glorious living colour and shown on televison in horrendous detail. Comedians Sid James and Tommy Cooper both died on stage in front of press photographers and rather gruesome photos of their dying moments have been widely published. What about Michael Lush, killed in an idiotic stunt on that vacuous drivel The Late Late Breakfast show in 1986? His death was caught on tape and the footage has been widely shown. What about the numerous hostages murdered in Iraq, often beheaded on camera? Photographs of their last moments have been published in many respected newspapers and magazines and shown on news broadcasts. Why is Diana, the ex-wife of the next in line to the British throne, entitled to any greater level of respect or privacy than any of these people? |
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OrygunDuk
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Why? So some weirdo can have an orgasm over a grisly photograph? 100,000 people have been slaughtered in Darfur - the press needs to report on such events, not cater to some sickos. |
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Richard
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The standard among programmers should be: would I show these photos if they were of my own family?
I don't think we need to see them. |
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homebody
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this is simple how would you like it if you saw pictures of your mother dead on TV ? i know i wouldn't its disrespectful to her family let the poor woman rest in peace. |
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onebigfool
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The media will do what they can get away with. However, we don't have to watch. It is easier to control ourselves then to try and control the rest of the world. |
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Randy Gaye
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No and I for one am not prepared to watch it. it is disgusting. voyeurism at its worse.
really what does it achieve it just cheap publicity. |
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Doethineb
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I've always regarded it as a hallmark of our civilisation that our media have the good taste to refrain from displaying the intimate moments of a person's life and death to the prurient gaze of the public. In Latin America, for example, it is common to see dead bodies on news broadcasts following violent episodes and it must be truly terrible for the friends and relatives of the dead to have to cope with this invasive publicity as they struggle to come to terms with their grief. I think that we have to ask ourselves how we would feel about having such pictures of us displayed and how we would feel if we were the next of kin of such people. The late Princess of Wales was a woman who took a pride in her appearance and there is no doubt that she would have hated the idea of having such pictures shown. Her sons have already indicated their feelings of revulsion. Showing these pictures can serve no useful purpose and would be in callous disregard for the feelings of her surviving relatives. |
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NutstersChick
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i say no & it's in bad taste,
we're just not ready yet.
be a good idea if/when Charlie & his Horse are anywhere near thinking they'll sit on the throne,
just as a gentle reminder what the silly man drove Diana, too.
but right now.
NO! |
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mjsw17
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Would you want the whole world to watch you dying? |
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fizzy123
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There is no benefit to anyone for seeing these pictures -personally i find it offensive and channel 4 need to learn from previous controversy issues they have been dealing with. |
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achrimsdale
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Well they are all over the Internet and in foreign magazines and newspapers so why should tv be exempt?
Plus if it warns against drunk driving it is good.
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timmystill@btinternet.com
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Would you want your Mum to be shown in her last moments on this earth to the whole world i don't think so |
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Ollie
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No they should not be allowed to show it.I would not like to be shown on tele dying.Diana has never been allowed any peace. |
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zia_hyundai
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there are so many dying accidents and pictures ............ |
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Artisan Rebel
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No, and only because the family does not want them showed. |
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Bum Gravy.
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They aren't showing those pictures. They are showing a picture of a Doctor leaning into the Merc.
This was on the front page of the Sun last year.
You really should stop reading cr@p newspapers. |
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Cilly Buggah
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Bad taste is pervading our lives at every level.
Books.newspapers, films,TV........all filling us with horror. filth and evil until it becomes common place and we accept it as the norm.
I think this is why violence/aggression, hatred, intolerance and plain 'bad manners' are on the increase. We have become 'conditioned'.
We are living in an ailing society and this is why so many religious fundamentalists are getting such a strong foothold.
There seems to be little that ordinary people can do about it, our voice is not heard because it's not loud enough nor extreme enough to be heard over the cacophony of our professional media manipulators.
So why not just ignore it. If everyone simply switched off offensive media wouldn't it send a message back that they hadn't got things right? |
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Tid
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I really want to answer this question but it would take me hours and hours and I would probably end up saying - "move on world" |
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claremont9
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No. Its been years since it happened why dont they just leave it alone. |
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muldoonspicnic
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Yes if it helps prove where the photographers were stood as it was claimed thet were climbing all over the car. And yes if it in any way help muhhamed al fayed prove what actually happened taht night. |
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Lord Robbie
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If you don't want to watch it cause you think it is wrong
Change channel, there are more than ever now
Let me watch what i want and you watch what you want
I'm not hurting you |
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Janbull
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Why not............a woman is doing a personality contest in Holland, the prize being her kidneys. It seems there are no boundaries any more! |
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golden
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at the end of the day channel 4 are not forcing anyone to watch it if you want to see it watch it i think personally they should expose all the pictures and all the reasons how things have been covered up it took a long time to get her to a hospital when there was one minutes away |
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Neely O'Hara
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Like has been said above, people who want to see them will see them on the internet or whatever, so in a programme about Diana's death, it seems appropriate or at least understandable to use the pictures.
If you're offended by it, vote with your feet and don't watch. |
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fried chicken
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fried chicken? |
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