The Media Scrum

Vanderbilt

I’ll probably get a hiding for this – but nevertheless.....

Isn’t there something incredibly distasteful in seeing the media scrum that forms outside police stations and court buildings when important events such as the charging recently of some individuals allegedly involved in the Anglo/Maple 10 debacle.

What advantage is it to us in having 50 odd cameras pointed at the one individual?

Exhibit A:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGKjmZkiT5o

Should media organisations not come to some agreement and arrange one or two ‘stock’ photos on such occasions.

Its something that sits very uneasy with me and I believe worthy of consideration. The paparazzi culture is nothing to aspire to.

HalloweenJack

It's not the nicest thing in the world, I'll agree.

I did some work as a journalist before and quickly found out that a lot of them, in Ireland, won't do you any favours. They all want exclusives, are very competitive and not interested in sharing sources.

And the news papers are the worst for this as they are not adapting to modern media. They still expect other media forms to hold off until they get their chance to publish it in a newspaper, ironically, in the interest of "fairness".

AnonoBoy

People want to see photos.
Papers want to print photos.
Photographers want to take photos.

IT'S THE CIRCLE OF LIFE!!!!