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Originally Posted by Maggy J
And now we have a terrorist's wet dream..changing TV schedules to provide 24 hour publicity for their cause..and endless speculation from experts and bystanders. I'd rather we kept things normal and wait until there is real info announced and then sympathy for the victims. I hate the way this gives more publicity to the perpetrators/recruiters.
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I was listening to a reporter at the scene on Radio London this morning and found his persistent questions to all and sundry quite off-putting. At one point he approached one of the injured and had to be told quite firmly by someone assisting the victim that the person was not in a fit state to be questioned. It doesn't look like the media lessons which were supposed to have been learned after the Greenfell disaster have percolated through to all our journalists and I too find the saturation coverage and endless media speculation annoying. The media may have a job to do but they don't have a right to treat scared, traumatised and even injured people in this manner. Furthermore all they achieve is spreading rumours and mis-information whilst giving the bombers what they want.
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Originally Posted by Mick
I do not agree with a news blackout, people need free flowing information. These incidents are fluid, people need to know what is going on, where to avoid.
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That's fine when it's done by the emergency services on the scene. There can never be a blackout but the media need to allow the injured to get help and the emergency services to do their jobs then report what's happened in a responsible manner. Endless speculation just adds to the confusion and spreads fear.