Pictures of mourners at funerals

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Murt10

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Is it just me, or does anyone else find the 1/2 front page picture of Marian Finucane at the funeral of her friend Nuala O'Faolain totally objectionable?

Normally, I have no time for these media personalities, but I feel that this picture and pictures like it, showing people, media personalities and private individuals alike, grieving at the news of the death or funeral of a loved one or friend, is a total invasion of that persons genuine grief and privacy. All this is done purely in the interest of selling more newspapers.

As I said I have no affection for media personalities, and I absolutely loved all the coverage that Pat Kenny got for trying to take his neighbours and former friends land by stealth, but this is something completely different, and is a low point for so called journalism.


Murt
 
I agree. I've often thought that a media presence at funerals is an unnecessary and inapprpriate intrusion. People should be allowed grieve with some degree of privacy. I don't know how photos, such as today's one, necessarily serve the public interest.
 
Graham_07 said:
The public have an insatiable greed for bad news stories. The papers know that this sells.
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Agreed. Besides, media personalities / famous people get paid loads of money / make money out of their profile. They cannot have it both ways.
 
Murt10 said:
Normally, I have no time for these media personalities

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I absolutely loved all the coverage that Pat Kenny got for trying to take his neighbours and former friends land by stealth
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Bit of a contradiction there, eh? :confused:
 
rabbit said:
Agreed. Besides, media personalities / famous people get paid loads of money / make money out of their profile. They cannot have it both ways.
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Not a very understanding attitude for someone so concerned for his postie?
 
rabbit said:
Agreed. Besides, media personalities / famous people get paid loads of money / make money out of their profile. They cannot have it both ways.
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The Flood family in Clonroche were not celebrities and made no money from their profile. Yet their funeral was invaded by a phalanx of paparazzi who went to elaborate lengths to photograph the bereaved despite a concerted effort to keep them at bay and repeated appeals for privacy.
 
ubiquitous said:
Yet their funeral was invaded by a phalanx of paparazzi who went to elaborate lengths to photograph the bereaved despite a concerted effort to keep them at bay and repeated appeals for privacy.
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Paparazzi wouldn't exist if there wasn't such a huge market for it. Keep an eye on how many people you know buy Now/Hello/The Sun/etc... Sad but true.
 
I totally agree with the OP , even a media woman like Marian deserves to have her privacy respected . The private bits, that she shares with the public , are hers to share or not to share as she chooses. This morning the Indo stole some of her privacy and dignity?
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I have to agree with the Op. When I saw the photo my first reaction was that it was a shocking invasion of privacy
 
I'd say the family allowed it as the camera was in the church.

There was a big interest in the story (I wasn't interested in it myself) as they had received a lot of messages. The cameras didn't go the graveyard which makes me think that the family said okay to everything up to that.

I do agree that what the media thinks the public is interested in greatly differs to what I'm interested in. That said they have to sell papers and when a certain story is put on the front page its sells and sells. I don't buy it but obviously other people do.
 
The Indo strikes again today, with pictures of Packie Bonner and another ex-Celtic player in tears at the funeral of a colleague. The only solution is to boycott the Indo. I haven't bought a paper since they gave front page coverage to the involvement of a Garda in the Abbeylara shooting (years after every possible enquiry into Abbeylara had completed) on the day the same Garda was burying his wife and infant child.
 
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