News At 6

[TWR]

Saville, why do they have to repeatedly show the evil persons face, is there any need?

[Old_Geezer]

I don't think need has much to do with it.
Least we forget ?

[Mick-the-Miller]

Scoop - hot off the Presses - he's still dead!

[EcclesCake]

It is a news programme, you can't just erase the images from the distasteful news reports of times gone by.

As it is he and others have already been removed from the likes of TOTP2 which is wholly appropriate.

[anneasquith]

no there is no need for any of the media to post pictures and video's of him, but they do ?

[Psybbo]

I agree, anne, the sight of his sneering face makes me ill!

[gingejbee]

It's teleVISION...so you have to have pictures. They discuss the water industry- they show taps and toilets, the gas industry- they show gas-burning hobs etc etc. Twas ever thus.

[factor-fiction]

They still show pictures of Bin Laden and I'd expect a picture to come up if there was an item on Hitler, Gary Glitter, Harold Shipman or whoever. I wish they'd show a picture of him where he's looking more miserable though

[EcclesCake]

To suggest that images of perpetrators of heinous crimes should never be shown is akin to suggesting history be rewritten and we just erase them from our memory.

If you don't want to see their pictures listen to the radio news programmes.

[ichkeria]

I think it's people with the TV on in the background. They wonder why there's suddenly a picture of James S wheeling grateful patients round a hospital and grinning.

[Peter Pedant]

// As it is he and others have already been removed from the likes of TOTP2 which is wholly appropriate.//

blimey shades of the Ministry of Truth and 1984 ( re-writing history )

[mikey4444]

I agree but I'm not sure how it will change. I'm just glad that the issue is being taken seriously, and I suppose his ugly mug is s price we have to pay.

[ichkeria]

http://newsthump.com/2012/10/16/editor-responsible-for-cutting-paedophiles-out-of-top-of-the-pops-repeats-hospitalised-with-exhaustion/

[Hypognosis]

No, there was absolutely no need to show those images and I've mislaid my special (rubber) TV Brick, so I was additionally denied that pleasure.

Showing us pictures to match the words we're hearing: is that all they teach them in media studies courses, beyond "dead airtime is a sin and it must be stuffed with words and imagery at all times"?

[ludwig]

// Saville, why do they have to repeatedly show the evil persons face, is there any need? //

That's pretty much what I used to think when he was still alive and working in television.

[ichkeria]

You don't need a media studies class to grasp the fact that if you're doing a story about person X then there will be pictures of person X to accompany it.