As usual, Lifenews distinguished itself
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:35 am
The publication published the news about the dead child under the headline “Body of the ‘main passenger’ of the A321 that crashed in Egypt has been found.” “Main passenger” is a quote from the caption to a photo on the Instagram account of the woman who crashed with her child and husband.
Such publications sharply destroy users' trust in the media and increase their negativity towards journalists. This indignation, caused mainly by TV channels, also spread to the RBC website, which wanted to honor the memory of the victims.
The third reason for readers' and experts' dissatisfaction with the RBC article is the format of the material. Unlike The New York Times, BBC, CNN, Gorgonua.com, Varlamov's blog, and Gazeta.ru and list of bahrain cell phone numbers Sputnik i Pogrom , which published similar materials yesterday , RBC posted active links to the accounts of the deceased on social networks. Thus, the publication not only told about these people, but also simplified the interference of anyone who wanted to in their personal lives. The VKontakte administration had to block the pages of the deceased to stop the flow of messages from strangers.
Daria Penchilova
former director of the b2c department of RBC
<p>"To publish or not to publish photos of the victims of yesterday's disaster from personal accounts on social networks is a question on the edge, a question of form, and let each editorial office decide.</p>
<p>But does nothing click when media outlets with a million-strong audience publish links to profiles of the deceased on social networks? Is it possible that we forget what kind of rhetoric has been going on in social networks lately? Is it not obvious that comments will appear under people's photos that will make your blood run cold? Does it not occur to us to at least ask the administration of social networks to close the comments?</p>
<p>Truly, the road to hell is paved with good intentions"</p>
The captions about rest and vacation that RBC published along with the photos also look out of place. Instead of trying to find more information about the lives of these people - where they worked, studied, what they dreamed about and what they were interested in. Of course, collecting such information takes more time - but such material would look much more appropriate not the day after the tragedy, but a week later. If the goal is not ratings, but preserving memory.
Such publications sharply destroy users' trust in the media and increase their negativity towards journalists. This indignation, caused mainly by TV channels, also spread to the RBC website, which wanted to honor the memory of the victims.
The third reason for readers' and experts' dissatisfaction with the RBC article is the format of the material. Unlike The New York Times, BBC, CNN, Gorgonua.com, Varlamov's blog, and Gazeta.ru and list of bahrain cell phone numbers Sputnik i Pogrom , which published similar materials yesterday , RBC posted active links to the accounts of the deceased on social networks. Thus, the publication not only told about these people, but also simplified the interference of anyone who wanted to in their personal lives. The VKontakte administration had to block the pages of the deceased to stop the flow of messages from strangers.
Daria Penchilova
former director of the b2c department of RBC
<p>"To publish or not to publish photos of the victims of yesterday's disaster from personal accounts on social networks is a question on the edge, a question of form, and let each editorial office decide.</p>
<p>But does nothing click when media outlets with a million-strong audience publish links to profiles of the deceased on social networks? Is it possible that we forget what kind of rhetoric has been going on in social networks lately? Is it not obvious that comments will appear under people's photos that will make your blood run cold? Does it not occur to us to at least ask the administration of social networks to close the comments?</p>
<p>Truly, the road to hell is paved with good intentions"</p>
The captions about rest and vacation that RBC published along with the photos also look out of place. Instead of trying to find more information about the lives of these people - where they worked, studied, what they dreamed about and what they were interested in. Of course, collecting such information takes more time - but such material would look much more appropriate not the day after the tragedy, but a week later. If the goal is not ratings, but preserving memory.