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BBC 1 Shooting 2 nights ago- wrong or right?
Had a heated discussion fuelled by Pinotage (KWV £6.99)last night with the old man about the BBC showing a man being shot after he had gone a tad barmy in a bulldozer in Jerusalem injuring and killing people on his path of destruction.
The footage showed him being chased, then crashing and a gunman (may have been a policeman) shoot him dead with a couple of slugs.
Being the kind of person who is always grumbling that people need to wake up to the world at large, I was surprised to see that my reaction was to be stunned at this footage.
Not because of the violent nature of it, but because it was on the good old trusted BBC- an impartial and supposed balanced public service broadcaster who would never slip to the low sensationalist tactics of the commercial broadcaster.
As much as I understand the argument that people need to see things for what they are, I can't see a purposeful motive for showing this. Will showing this footage fuel or quell tensions between Israelis and Palestinians? Would the news have been less noticed if the reporter was to simply SAY the gunman was shot dead moments later? In these litigious times we live in, will these become a new trend in British broadcasting given that it was the first time I have seen someone actually being killed in such a fashion on British terrestial TV?
I would love to know what u think on this coopr8ers..x
The footage showed him being chased, then crashing and a gunman (may have been a policeman) shoot him dead with a couple of slugs.
Being the kind of person who is always grumbling that people need to wake up to the world at large, I was surprised to see that my reaction was to be stunned at this footage.
Not because of the violent nature of it, but because it was on the good old trusted BBC- an impartial and supposed balanced public service broadcaster who would never slip to the low sensationalist tactics of the commercial broadcaster.
As much as I understand the argument that people need to see things for what they are, I can't see a purposeful motive for showing this. Will showing this footage fuel or quell tensions between Israelis and Palestinians? Would the news have been less noticed if the reporter was to simply SAY the gunman was shot dead moments later? In these litigious times we live in, will these become a new trend in British broadcasting given that it was the first time I have seen someone actually being killed in such a fashion on British terrestial TV?
I would love to know what u think on this coopr8ers..x
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Permalink Reply by funky4u on -
good points you raise C.
I cant comment on this programme as I no longer watch TV and have not done so for a few years (only time I catch TV now is if i happened to be round someones house and its randomly on in the background).
But some general comments:
The BBC unbiased? well thats never been the case - i know the public line and mission statement (or indeed terms of broadcast license) is to be just that as it is for all TV stations with their news output - that is presented in an unbias and impartial way.
But lets be real - its humans who edit, film and commission tv shows and shoots - at some point their personality will come into their news story.
There are some good points and output that the BBC does - but yes it can be bias.
Even if bias - quality and presentation can be high.
But - i agree - there is a moral issue with how real life footage is presented with regards to actually showing a death as it happens unless there is very good reason (IE conspiracy theories where deaths are being disputed etc)
But even then perhaps some forewarning of the gory scene about to happen would be advisable.
Having worked in the BBC at times (& still appear every so often on a local level) i view the BBC almost like a UK Broadcasting cival service - its is a massive organisation, in a globally unique sitiation regarding funding and not having to adhere to market forces to survive (anyone see that 400+ BBC reporters are going to the olympics in China - wish them well folks - cause you're paying for the millions its costing ;)
It, like the royal family is deeply UN democratic and indeed there is alot of smugness, arogance and instituitional racism within some quarters in there.
Which I guess is some of the reasons why Radio 1's output & outlook is the way it is & why there is a large stench from the fundamentally flawed 1xtra station...
As for the palastinians - mainstream religious heads - please note: i represent non of your religions be it the C the I or the J
As a group of PEOPLE the Palestinians have been ethnically cleansed now for decades. People are not born a religion - that is learnt AFTER birth.
Sad really as people from each religious side of Palestine were all originally the same tribe thousands of years ago...I live in hope they and we all will wake up and stop this seperative BS.
PA
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Permalink Reply by Cyndi on -
They did warn before showing, I guess I just didn't expect it.
Radio 1s out put and outlook and 1xtra- that's another thread innit.
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Permalink Reply by funky4u on
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ok, I see, well - this is one area where TV and visual news and info can de-sensitize.
Your reaction was an instinctial, natural reaction to seeing someone die then and there. IMO Because we see so much of this stuff flashed up in news and docs - people start to switch off to it which is worrying when you come to think of it.
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