MEDIUM RARE by Jullie Y. Daza It was headline stuff, video with story that was one in a million, those television images of the close-in, face-to-face assassination of a broadcaster inside his booth, in his home in Calamba, Misamis Occ. last Sunday, Nov. 5. Ironically, "live streaming" of his own death gave nationwide TV viewers a ringside view of the crime as it happened, where it happened, to Juan Jumalon. A news director can only dream of such dramatic footage, so it was a scoop, except that it was not, because the live streaming meant the horrific killing was shared and multiplied on TV and other platforms and portals. Good video but unethical. An unwritten law restricts media, print and television, from depicting pain and suffering on a personal, intimate level. Such scenes, especially in close-up, are considered abhorrent, not to be published or broadcast for general readership/viewership. |
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