Terror at Sea...car crash tv cashing in..or not?

[SaharaS]

Posibly a little pointless post....but... watching Terror At Sea while I type, on Ch 4+1...

hmmm does anyone else think this might be a little too soon for the families of those who were not so lucky? Some are still unsure of their loved ones actual fate/presumed dead...It does strike me as a little too much like rubber neckers paradise (the reconstructed shots of broken wine glasses close up etc..

...esp with its vague Titanic similarities (the film I mean more than the actual Titanic tragedy)media cashing in on misfortune...would this have happened for another type of tragedy?likely not...

Feel a bit guilty for watching but also I am interested to understand what happened...& so I guess yes, I have fallen into the media trap..but feel terrible for those still coming to terms with it...

just interested in your thoughts

 

[lachlanandmarcus]

I didnt watch as I think it is in extremely poor taste to cobble together a programme like this when there are almost certainly more than 10 bodies of people still not recovered and now perhaps not likely to be recovered for months as they have decided it is too dangerous to continue the underwater search.

Very distasteful.

I have no problem with an in depth programme once all the facts are known and the bodies removed but until then - noooo

 

[SaharaS]

I didnt watch as I think it is in extremely poor taste to cobble together a programme like this when there are almost certainly more than 10 bodies of people still not recovered and now perhaps not likely to be recovered for months as they have decided it is too dangerous to continue the underwater search.

Very distasteful.

I have no problem with an in depth programme once all the facts are known and the bodies removed but until then - noooo

As I'd feared, and for the same reasons as you stated, I couldn't watch very much...they had tried to do it tastefully /documentary style, but I stopped & switched over a min or so after the shots of the broken wine glass..so could only watch 5 or 6 mins if that..cobbling together, is exactly right..way too reality tv for feeling comfortable with...a friend commented on fb that none the wiser, only had a view of those who were lucky & some of them looked so distressed it upset her too..so she switched off too.a massive one for complaints i think points of view style...utter terror, my heart really goes out to those who experienced it..all the emergency & rescue crews,divers, families and to those who were not so lucky..most of all to those still unaccounted for...I felt too uncomfortable to watch the world trade centre programmes even ten years on...this was just way too close. Shame on the media once again..

May they rest peacefully x

 

[Shantara]

I was curious, but like you said, too soon. I didn't watch it and after the Japanese and Thai earthquakes/Tsunami's I find it very distressing (Especially the Thai one, they showed people being washed away. I was in tears) Also the 9/11 program.

Such a terrible thing to happen
R.I.P to all those who lost their lives.

 

[SaharaS]

I was curious, but like you said, too soon. I didn't watch it and after the Japanese and Thai earthquakes/Tsunami's I find it very distressing (Especially the Thai one, they showed people being washed away. I was in tears) Also the 9/11 program.

Such a terrible thing to happen
R.I.P to all those who lost their lives.

yes exactly..hard enough to watch it repeatedly on the news..for whichever corner of the world the latest disaster is..went through a phase of avoiding newspapers & not going out of my way to watch the news..at the risk of sounding older than i feel...John Cravens News Round was always about right..sensitively covered & never milking peoples misfortune..other channels could do well to take a similar angle...a respectful one