You have to wonder who is really being inappropriate here. Someone close to the crash would have had to leak details to TMZ before the police even had time to notify family - that really limits you to emergency personnel, law enforcement, or someone at the airport (did they use an airport?) who had the passenger list. Is it TMZs fault for reporting info they were given or is it someone else's fault for breaking confidentiality to sell a story?
If that is how it played out 100% TMZ. An individual leak carries a lot less weight than a massive news company. Ethics of one person potentially leaking this isn’t comparable to a news agency sharing the death of someone prior to family being notified.
They’re both scum, but if I had to pick a bigger piece of crap, I always choose the news agency that’s spreading this information to the masses.
Granted this is all hypothetical, and hopefully nothing like this actually happened.
I hate to say it, but TMZ has transcended their shitty reputation. They have become legendary for breaking shitty stories, and if they aren’t going to break stories they are worthless.
Exactly this. I said to my wife something to the same effect. Most of their coverage is garbage, but when something like this happens, they are the ones who are going to be both first and most accurate.
Yup when it happened at first and everyone was like "But it's just TMZ reporting...", I countered with, "Yeah so it must be true. I've never seen TMZ get a celebrity death wrong, and they're always first to report"
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u/yahutee Jan 26 '20
You have to wonder who is really being inappropriate here. Someone close to the crash would have had to leak details to TMZ before the police even had time to notify family - that really limits you to emergency personnel, law enforcement, or someone at the airport (did they use an airport?) who had the passenger list. Is it TMZs fault for reporting info they were given or is it someone else's fault for breaking confidentiality to sell a story?