Strait Times photo disrespect to dead

last SG · 2007-02-28T08:49:11+00:00

all dead body pic should not be too close up else reader gana rude shock wanbao or sinmeng lagi worst at times. 20 yrs ago they showed pic of that HK actress...

lionnoisy SG

today 27.02.2007 strait times page 12 shows uncensored
images of Two female tourists - Tatiana Tsimfer and Liubov Svirkova - were killed on Saturday morning on Jomtien Beach in Pattaya. .

The image show no respect to the dead,half naked.Similar to this image.

STimes shall apology for printing this image.

Police inspect the bodies of two female Russian tourists on Pattaya's Jomtien Beach, a popular destination for foreign tourists located 150 kms from the capital Bangkok February 24, 2007. The two tourists were shot dead and left on lounge chairs on a beach in Thailand's eastern resort town of Pattaya, police said on Saturday. THAILAND OUT REUTERS/Stringer (THAILAND)

2.If I were the ST editor,i will at least edit like this:

at least the editor have to cover the eyes and sensitive parts.

ditzy SG

Reuters also at fault too. Laughing

the Bear SG

lemme guess.. you see the photos on Reuters, and if ST doesn't print it, you say that ST is hiding things..

Laughing

missqi SG

Laughing

dork3d SG

If this is deemed to be disrespectful to the dead, how about those people who had uploaded the 42 seconds video clip of the poor man who died on the tracks at Yishun MRT station last December?

mhcampboy SG

Laughing

Ito_^ SG

if it happens in singapore, u wun even see a headline. Laughing

thailand some more!!

BillyBong SG

The truth is cold, hard and 'disrespectful'.

Some people want the truth, but cannot stomach its contents.

That's why the 'truth points to itself'.

weiqimun SG

singapore is on thailand's case right now. u scan the number of reports tt the sg media reports on thai's apparent missteps; unrests in the south, the PM's flip flops, economic spiral, etc. and it's very childish. every other even a person will not take things so personally n belabored it to such extent. this is outrageous and a waste of ink and paper. another reason why i dun buy the ST.....

[another bad taste....i dun know if you recall during the riots in indo a few years ago bet the christians and the muslims, they show indons carrying decapitated heads on the front page]

i am sure the thai embassy is monitoring this now, and BG yeo will still not be welcomed in thailand anytime soon....

iveco SG

SMRT has started probing who posted the CCTV footage of the 2 subway suicides in the public domain.

Anyway, the TS is starting to look like a tech-savvy version of Dr Who. Rolling Eyes

lionnoisy SG

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lemme guess.. you see the photos on Reuters, and if ST doesn't print it, you say that ST is hiding things..

2.ST shall cover part of photo,eyes,naked body etc.ST staff should learnt
this already.

3.The MRT clip torture the family too much and the poster
shall be canned . I can tell you some one in SMRT
will go to jail for it is a crimial offence to steal property
of SMRT.The clip belong to SMRT.

Can the poster charged under COMPUTER MISUSE ACT
(CHAPTER 50A)--http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/

4.Freedom of expression is not unlimited.
This is too harsh to the dead's family.

Gazelle SG

When they show pictures of dead iraqis or africans, no one give a shit. When they show picture of dead white people, that is disrespect!!

white supremacy?

Lowclassman SG

Originally posted by lionnoisy:
today 27.02.2007 strait times page 12 shows uncensored
images of [b]Two female tourists - Tatiana Tsimfer and Liubov Svirkova - were killed on Saturday morning on Jomtien Beach in Pattaya. .

The image show no respect to the dead,half naked.Similar to this image.

STimes shall apology for printing this image.

Police inspect the bodies of two female Russian tourists on Pattaya's Jomtien Beach, a popular destination for foreign tourists located 150 kms from the capital Bangkok February 24, 2007. The two tourists were shot dead and left on lounge chairs on a beach in Thailand's eastern resort town of Pattaya, police said on Saturday. THAILAND OUT REUTERS/Stringer (THAILAND)[/b]

What's there respect or disrespect?

What could you see on the photos?

Hogzilla SG

Let me guess.

So the present trend of the "countering cyberspace criticism" team is trying it's best at "clothing" themselves, so that they will look like a sheep rather than the wolf.

Lastly, lionnoisy thread = +1

kahlen SG

Who the heck kills tourists?

saffron60 SG

It is really in bad taste that ST decided to publish the photos. I don’t know why sing and msian newspapers like to show gory pics and give gory details about crime (like rape, murder, so forth). Maybe they assume that the public laps up this kind of sensationalism and that the public has become desensitized to this gory images. I think the pics and detailed wordings appeal to those people who have more of the voyeuristic tendencies. I don’t agree with such sensationalism.

LazerLordz SG

Well, the MRT videos may be disrespectful, but at least we managed to see that SMRT has not been very upfront with their video capabilities. Telling us that they do not store the footage then...and now?

What a load of Kerryism.

SingaporeTyrannosaur SG

Why ah, lionoisy thinks it's disrespectful to have the pictures put up for the public to see in the newspapers but yet deems it fit to post the very picture in his post making noise about using the picture?

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+1 Laughing

fudgester SG

Laughing

CKeer SG

Laughing

Cheers.
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