I never post about stuff like this but damn this left a nasty taste in my mouth. 
 
I just clicked on an article in the NY Post about the woman who live streamed from the top floor of the London fire, where she was trapped. They have the video embedded. Couldn't believe my ears when, at 12 seconds in, they added a horror movie style bass drone sound effect to make it seem more dramatic (as if it could be). I don't know if I'm overreacting but I just thought holy sh**, that's TACKY. Have a listen for yourself. I know they're a scummy tabloid and all but my God....is that normal practice? 
 
http://nypost.com/2017/06...n-burning-london-tower

I can't say that I'm surprised - everything's entertainment nowadays.

That is a new low...
Total failure.

You're not overreacting James, that is just ghastly.

Wow, that is incredibly sleazy!

horrific! very sad 

I don't happen to think that there is anything remotely entertaining about somebodies pain and tragedy in what appears to be the last final moments of a persons life .
When I was a little boy my family had a brush w the National Media ...
I was present during the event that had taken place . I can tell you what the media said and what really happened were 2 very different stories ...
 
Kenny
 

I live in Oklahoma and on the day of the Oklahoma City bombing, it only took a few moments for the local news stations to put a graphic in the lower right corner of an mushroom cloud with red lettering being blown up "Terror In The Heartland" like a movie advertisement. You'd think they were running a commercial for a bad Bruce Willis flick.
 
They loved it.  Couldn't me more excited 168 people were killed and we were all glued to the tube trying to find out what was happening.
 
The media has always been honest, we just don't listen.  They have always told you that they tell "stories".  Not facts, not events, not accurate information about what's happening around you - stories.  They tell stories.  Everything is a narrative, complete with drama, good guys, bad guys, conflict and end game.  
 
And that's how it reads.  Caricatures, not people.  Archetypal good and bad, cardboard characters. Like children writing about adults.  Never understood why the media is revered for anything.  They sell stories and drama for profit.  Corporate profits off of others misery and human failure.  

Strangers writing about other strangers to be read by yet more strangers.  Nobody knows anybody - everyone in all their complexity and life span are reduced to a handful of paragraphs by a stranger who's mission is to tell a story for profit.

Late 1980’s was working as an aircraft mechanic for Cessna in Long Beach. Our facility was on the edge of the airfield next to many other maintenance shops.
 
One night a thief started doing the rounds of the shops to steal avionics packages.
 
He was approached by a security guard. The guy pulled out a wrench, bashed the guy in the face and left him for dead, then went on raiding the planes. The guard regained consciousness and called in the incident.
 
Second security guard came in and found the guy next to our hangar. The guy was over 300 pounds, about 6’6” and came at the guard with the wrench. No match for a single bullet that dropped him dead.
 
By the time I got to work early morning, the police were there completing their investigation, outline of the body chalked, crime scene tape etc. Then they took down the tape and just left the body on the tarmac. Seemed weird, but soon came the news reporters. Each group got their turn.
 
First group moved the body so the photos didn’t have to show the chalk marks. Sky 9 or whoever from the TV landed their helicopter, set up shop and had the blond in a mini skirt prepped for the live coverage. They were discussing the dramatics of the photo op and decided that the guys arms and legs would look better if tweaked a certain way so they made adjustments.
 
This must have been common practice because when Sky 10 arrived with their cover girl, they bent the body around for their best effect.
 
By about midday when Sky 11 showed up, the guy had been frying in summer heat for several hours on the asphalt. He was starting to bloat and get stiff making it a harder to get him to lay flat, but they done a fine job getting the photo op in the end.
 
About 1 in the afternoon, they finally came in to take the body.
Have never really trusted anything I see on the news from that time on.
 
John

Wow that's truly horrific John. I think it's probably been decades since journalism could be described as an honorable professional, at least on the whole.

One of my current beefs is the way in which the media motivates and encourages mass killers by providing them with the platform and coverage they desire. I'm a firm believer that every mass shooter is motivated by the coverage the previous one gets. After every such shooting, the media goes nuts with its endless articles outlining the life history of the shooter, their beefs in life, their frustrations and the reasons behind it. If they left some kind of suicide note or manifesto, then that's a front page story and the media will pore over it point by point so that the public is left in no doubt as to the reasons why the killer did it. And then of course we have the subsequent "exclusive" interviews with the killer's friends and past acquaintances in which we're given another blow by blow account of all of the killer's perceived slights and injustices in life.

Of course the next shooter sits at home watching this media circus and thinks man, I want to go out the same way. I want the world to know all of my beefs too. And thus another mass killing is planned.

Meanwhile the media is using the killing to propose more gun control, totally oblivious to its own role in motivating the shootings in the first place. But the bottom line is they don't even care about the deaths - why should they, when such incidents are always exploited for an increase in page clicks and ad revenue? They truly are scum.