by Dogwatcher » Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:23 am
by Brodlach » Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:25 am
Brodlach wrote:Rory Laird might end up the best IMO, he is an absolute jet. He has been in great form at the Bloods
by Footy Smart » Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:26 am
by Dogwatcher » Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:33 am
Brodlach wrote:I think posting here is slightly different to the ABC.
And the post here was just what was reported
by bennymacca » Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:34 am
Dogwatcher wrote:I think there's a lot of hysteria about that Tweet.
They asked a question, they were given a response.
How is it any different to posting images of the incident? If anything, it was further highlighting the seriousness of the situation.
There was a lot of supposition etc going on from all who were Tweeting about this horrible situation.
If this was a car accident or a siege (just think of some of the stuff reported during the Clavell siege) and a media organisation reported that, there'd be no concerns.
Furthermore, how is having other media gloating about it and writing faux outrage pieces in response any better?
by Dogwatcher » Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:39 am
by bennymacca » Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:43 am
by Dogwatcher » Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:45 am
by Brodlach » Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:54 am
Dogwatcher wrote:Brodlach wrote:I think posting here is slightly different to the ABC.
And the post here was just what was reported
How is it any different? If it is showing disregard to Tweet it, is it not to repost?
I'm not having a go at Booney, who I think reposted it, but he didn't think there was a problem reposting it and no-one here had a go at him for doing so.
If it was so irresponsible, I'd have thought someone here would've said something to him.
Brodlach wrote:Rory Laird might end up the best IMO, he is an absolute jet. He has been in great form at the Bloods
by HH3 » Wed Nov 26, 2014 10:31 am
Dogwatcher wrote:I think there's a lot of hysteria about that Tweet.
They asked a question, they were given a response.
How is it any different to posting images of the incident? If anything, it was further highlighting the seriousness of the situation.
There was a lot of supposition etc going on from all who were Tweeting about this horrible situation.
If this was a car accident or a siege (just think of some of the stuff reported during the Clavell siege) and a media organisation reported that, there'd be no concerns.
Furthermore, how is having other media gloating about it and writing faux outrage pieces in response any better?
by Dogwatcher » Wed Nov 26, 2014 10:43 am
by Brodlach » Wed Nov 26, 2014 10:45 am
Brodlach wrote:Rory Laird might end up the best IMO, he is an absolute jet. He has been in great form at the Bloods
by Dogwatcher » Wed Nov 26, 2014 10:49 am
Dogwatcher wrote: They've already seen the photo which one of the newspapers posted, which said "the ball that got Phil Hughes".
They would have scooted past dozens of links to websites with photos, videos showing the incident and stories speculating on the injury and stories about cricket's worst injuries (did you know Shaun Tait broke AB Devilliers' hip?), including photos of Bernard Thomas with Ewen Chatfield after swallowing his tongue.
They would have seen all of that before they even saw that Tweet from Grandstand (which was gleefully reported on by other media, so imagine if the family had seen that...) - I was following it on Twitter yesterday and at the peak there were new posts regularly from a variety of sources, including Sportal, which suggested people "follow their coverage for Phil Hughes updates".
by HH3 » Wed Nov 26, 2014 10:58 am
by Lightning McQueen » Wed Nov 26, 2014 11:24 am
bennymacca wrote:The pics of him laying face down also were very poor Imo.
by Stumps » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:11 pm
by Dogwatcher » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:18 pm
HH3 wrote:Not if they opened Twitter and that was the top post. You also assume they all follow the same people on Twitter as you. They might have ABC, but no other news one. Maybe they don't follow any sport ones.
I would've thought speculating that someone is dead, before knowing anything, would be considered bad media practice. Guess not.
by HH3 » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:20 pm
Dogwatcher wrote:HH3 wrote:Not if they opened Twitter and that was the top post. You also assume they all follow the same people on Twitter as you. They might have ABC, but no other news one. Maybe they don't follow any sport ones.
I would've thought speculating that someone is dead, before knowing anything, would be considered bad media practice. Guess not.
Twitter users are news followers, they would have more than one news service on their Feed and all of them were posting about the incident. Any family member of a Test/first class cricketer on Twitter would have plenty of cricket, sport organisations on their Twitter feed.
I agree that it's bad media practice, but to isolate this one Tweet and not condone any of the others is hypocritical for mine. There were many, many equally as distressing things on my Twitter feed yesterday.
by bennymacca » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:20 pm
by Footy Smart » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:23 pm
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