Today an up and coming MotoGP rider died in a horrific accident at Sepang.He was 24.
The Mail Online has images of the crash and the grief of his Father and Girlfriend in all its detail. I find this sort of treatment of a young mans life ending in a flurry of pictures discusting, revolting and totally uncalled for.
I am not putting a link up so if you want to see this sensational jounalism at its worst you will have to google it. Is there no decency left in this world?
R I P Marco and condolences to those left behind.
By: PeeDee - 31st October 2011 at 18:18
It’s a Pull system John. The dimmer the nation gets, the more attrocious the reporting will get. The papers are feeding a demand.
It will take a generation to change that demand, maybe more.
A nation which breeds people that willfully damage a War memorial , has lost it. A barometer of society.
By: John Green - 31st October 2011 at 17:50
When, in previous contributions I’ve referred to the very public absence of certain values and standards of civilized behaviour in this country, this incident points firmly to such.
Those of us who condemn gutter journalism should express our contempt directly to the organisation concerned. If as many as possible write to express their disgust with this kind of shameful coverage then, just maybe, over time, we might see a return to decent reticence.
There is however, within sections of the public, a demand for sensationalism and the Press simply panders to this demand.
John Green
By: PeeDee - 24th October 2011 at 20:50
Agree with all the above. Glad I don’t read online papers and can’t get English papers here (Well, can, but the Sun is £4.50!) F that.
Not quite Journalistic sensationalism, but last week I happened to watch the security camera footage from the girl in China incident. That has left me scarred and disturbed about the human race. I wept at the footage, and more so on Friday when she died.
So, one can only imagine what relatives must go through with this sort of thing.
By: Comet - 24th October 2011 at 10:48
It’s always the same, when there is any kind of disaster the cameras are there being rammed into the faces of relatives as they find out their loved ones have been killed (I remember especially the photographing of distressed relatives after the Air France crash in 2009). Such “journalism” is disgusting and sick, whoever the story is about.
By: allan125 - 24th October 2011 at 10:41
Marco Simoncelli and the Mail online
Neither can I Moggy – but this thread is headed “Marco Simoncelli and the Mail online”
Not much coverage normally of most motorsports unless their is a tragedy like Marco or Dan Wheldon, but plenty on-line and in the paper on football, rugby etc.
They are obviously looking for cheap headlines in both types of media.
My thoughts are with his family, friends and girlfriend. R.I.P. Marco, a sad loss to MotoGP.
Allan
By: Moggy C - 23rd October 2011 at 22:43
It’s an awful rag. I really can’t envisage what would make anybody trade hard-earned cash for a copy
Moggy
By: Wokka Bob - 23rd October 2011 at 22:23
For once I agree with Paul 178.
Totally uncalled for coverage.
MS, may you rest in peace and your family come to terms with your passing.
By: Arthur Pewtey - 23rd October 2011 at 21:57
I’m afraid that publications such as the Daily Mail pander to some of the baser elements in society. Most of the content is just a joke but in this case (and in others) it gets away with being crass and insensitive.
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October 23, 2011 at 9:40 pm