Daily Tele goes to war on bystanders
There’s a remarkably emotive story in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph today.
Bylined to Vikki Campion, she reports on two traffic accidents where “both victims spent their final moments as macabre suburban entertainment”. She goes on:
“They died as mothers in pyjamas and dressing gowns watched on with dozy toddlers. As teenagers strutted around the crime scene, exhilarated, to see tragedy unfold. Sirens and flashing blue-red lights of emergency cars or as one youth says, “the party vans” lured them to the scene. They jostled to find a clearer view. They laughed, maybe at a private joke, and took photographs. The bodies were still in view. Gore porn.”
Then she really gets going:
What has also been interesting is watching the comments appearing under the article. As one reader suggests, isn’t this sort of article presented in a style similar to the “gore porn” that the Tele chastises? Let’s just even the ledger a touch.
I don’t know why you are surprised… it is the Tele after all