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| posted by Load Toad 117 days ago |
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I only just saw the picture (just got back from Dirtland) - the picture is very upsetting - whilst it may encourage chartiable actions and shows the real nature of the tragedy I think that such pictures are a gross insult to the families of the victims. If such a picture is used (similar have been used about the Burma tragedy) they should not show directly the identies of the victims. It crosses a hard to define moral line where reporting becomes ghoulish voyeurism.
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| posted by jesswill 117 days ago |
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I agree with you LT. What I do find annoying as well (and in a way it probably doesn't apply to to the SCMP since it's a HK newspaper) is that western media tend to publish these types of pictures when tragedy strickes in the developing world. They would never dare publish this if it was American, British or French kids (not that I would want to see this mind you!). It feels to me as if people think the death of kids in China, Irak or Sudan is not as upsetting as the death of kids in Europe or the US.
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| posted by bunthorne 117 days ago |
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Really?
How many pictures of these poor dead children are you seeing in the UK press?
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| posted by jesswill 117 days ago |
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You see it in the evening news (BBC, Sky news). I saw bits of people yesterday, it was horrible. They show you the whole lot as well when there is a suicide attack in Irak...
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| posted by HKBloke 117 days ago |
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I have scanned the online UK news feed and UK newspapers and they have all (as they should) focused on the destruction across the province and the terrible hardship being faced by the survivors of the earthquake.
I have yet to find a copy of the photograph that the south china morning post decided to put on it's front page today showing the dead bodies of half a dozed 5-6 year old children in their schoolroom tomb.
As i said before - shame on the SCMP. An appalling error of judgement.
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| posted by bunthorne 117 days ago |
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Err, that's not the press.
"Publishing pictures' is what you said.
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| posted by beebs 117 days ago |
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Saw the pictures from the SCMP today. Well actually, they were very hard not to miss during my lunch break and I was saddened by them. I mean, these are normally the kinds of pictures that are pasted across the local Chinese tabloids and I didn't expect the SCMP to follow that path.
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| posted by jesswill 117 days ago |
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Originally posted by bunthorne
Err, that's not the press.
"Publishing pictures' is what you said.
True that's a mistake on my part, I apologise. However I don't know how much better it is to show it on TV...
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| posted by HKBloke 117 days ago |
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So did the news channels in the UK show video footage of the piles of 4-5 year old children laying dead in their classroom tomb? I couldn't find any such footage on the net. I'm interested to find out if the SCMP were unique in showing such images within the english speaking media.
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| posted by jesswill 117 days ago |
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Originally posted by HKBloke
So did the news channels in the UK show video footage of the piles of 4-5 year old children laying dead in their classroom tomb? I couldn't find any such footage on the net. I'm interested to find out if the SCMP were unique in showing such images within the english speaking media.
I don't know for this photo/footage specifically (I have not seen it). I was speaking more generally of how much more we are seeing these types of footage more and more often as if people on the other side of the world didn't matter as much
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| posted by jesswill 117 days ago |
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As for the SCMP it seems to me like it is similar to the Chinese language papers that have no problem publishing pictures of, for example, accident victims dead on the road...
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| posted by bunthorne 117 days ago |
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I was under the impression that the BBC wasn't allowed to show such scenes.
Have you been watching Al_Jazeera by any chance?
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| posted by HKBloke 117 days ago |
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Originally posted by jesswill
As for the SCMP it seems to me like it is similar to the Chinese language papers that have no problem publishing pictures of, for example, accident victims dead on the road...
Generally they are not similar - but today they sold their soul to the devil by publishing a picture of dead children on the front page of their newspaper for the sole purpose of selling more copies. I find that inappropriate.
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| posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant 117 days ago |
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Originally posted by HKBloke
So did the news channels in the UK show video footage of the piles of 4-5 year old children laying dead in their classroom tomb? I couldn't find any such footage on the net. I'm interested to find out if the SCMP were unique in showing such images within the english speaking media.
China Daily had the same photo.
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| posted by HKBloke 116 days ago |
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There are a number of letters in today's scmp expressing similiar outrage at the use of the photograph.
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| posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant 116 days ago |
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That's hardly surprising. I stand my my opinion.
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| posted by Paps of Jura 112 days ago |
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I can't watch the news anymore
Is everyone donating using HSBC or some other means ?? What's the best way ?
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| posted by Load Toad 112 days ago (edited 112 days ago) |
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I don't understand the 'donating' thing at all. Money isn't the problem - China has a lot of the stuff. I'm not being callous but this isn't an issue about cash. I'm very sympathetic but I'm not sure if I donate $5 or $50K how it's going to help - how much of those dollars anyway will get to the people on the ground?
China has plenty cash - it has the worlds biggest armed forces (effectively the worlds biggest sapper (engineer squad)), helicopters, civil and military air force - it's been able to organize an Olympics, a crack down in Tibet, an Olympic torch run, a restriction on issuing visas to business people, a censoring of foreign media, a shutting of factories that may pollute prior to the Olympics - I don't think they need cash.
What value in cash expresses that I'm sympathetic and feeling empathy with the unfortunates that have lost so much?
Will they investigate Chinese building standards and enforcement?
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