13-08-2021, 03:09 PM
Brekkie post_id=34073 time= user_id=976 Wrote:AllWillBeWell post_id=34064 time= user_id=773 Wrote:He was asking for DMs and for people to send it to a Sky News email address. It's all about context though - the police, local MPs, local news organisations and others were strongly asking people not to share footage last night, something which Sky News themselves tweeted or retweeted, so it was going against the official advice of the time to ask for such footage.Brekkie post_id=33982 time= user_id=976 Wrote:Jack Taylor rightly getting criticised and now removed his Twitter account after asking people to send him footage despite widespread requests, reported by Sky News themselves, for people not to share footage of the incident.
Did this person freelance for Sky? It’s not totally uncommon for journalists to try and find footage as sometimes it will be used in a report. I guess he went about it in the wrong way asking publicly!
Whilst I think he may have gone about in the wrong way, I doubt he wanted someone to send in images or videos of dead bodies, he said for use on Sky News and quite frankly those sort of pictures wouldn’t have made the TV screen anyway. Sky, ITV and BBC we’re using footage of police cordons, emergency services arriving, air ambulances landing etc. I imagine he was probably looking for that sort of stuff.
We say a lot about mental health in society and then it feels like at the same time we have a pile on for a freelance journalist - who whilst perhaps at best should have been clearer, at worst should not tweeted such a thing - but he’s human and had a bad day at the office it seems. Many on here know first hand the pressures of broadcast environments and newsrooms, many others have a good insight into the job, I think clearly this was an error of judgement but let’s remember this was tragic incident and I doubt it was any broadcasters intention to be insensitive.