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rhivolution) wrote2011-09-07 11:27 pm
rhivolution) wrote2011-09-07 11:27 pm
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Dear UK media,
I'm not a thin-skinned person, but I really love how you feel that pushing September 11th pictures and programme promos at me with impunity is totally okay. And I don't mean the sentimental God Bless America sort of thing, either, I mean images and footage of terrible things.
The falling man photo, top and centre on the front page of Yahoo! UK as I went to check my email at lunch.*
The promos for TV programmes--during prime time--with action footage from the day (C4) and people screaming (History Channel). Or, perhaps the prime offender, this video from National Geographic Channel UK, which I have seen probably a dozen times in the last week and that makes me wince every single time.
ETA: Here's the History one. The disclaimer on the video? Not run on the broadcast version.
Suffice it to say, I am thinking an advert that starts with a piece of newspaper floating backwards through rubble to end up being someone reading it on a bus blown up on 7/7/05? Probably wouldn't make it past OFCOM.
It triggers me. It hurts me. And it's something that's, frankly, problematic.
I love you, UK media. And I'm not asking for special treatment. But I really hate how you do the same thing to other places that you complain about the US and Europe doing to you.
xx Rhi
* Yes, I still have a Yahoo Mail account shut up I am cool.
I'm not a thin-skinned person, but I really love how you feel that pushing September 11th pictures and programme promos at me with impunity is totally okay. And I don't mean the sentimental God Bless America sort of thing, either, I mean images and footage of terrible things.
The falling man photo, top and centre on the front page of Yahoo! UK as I went to check my email at lunch.*
The promos for TV programmes--during prime time--with action footage from the day (C4) and people screaming (History Channel). Or, perhaps the prime offender, this video from National Geographic Channel UK, which I have seen probably a dozen times in the last week and that makes me wince every single time.
ETA: Here's the History one. The disclaimer on the video? Not run on the broadcast version.
Suffice it to say, I am thinking an advert that starts with a piece of newspaper floating backwards through rubble to end up being someone reading it on a bus blown up on 7/7/05? Probably wouldn't make it past OFCOM.
It triggers me. It hurts me. And it's something that's, frankly, problematic.
I love you, UK media. And I'm not asking for special treatment. But I really hate how you do the same thing to other places that you complain about the US and Europe doing to you.
xx Rhi
* Yes, I still have a Yahoo Mail account shut up I am cool.