9-11 raised the bar for what the news channels deem acceptable.

I remember some TV awards show where they replayed the 9-11 footage 4 times before giving one of the news channels an award for the best footage. WTF? So for an award show we were shown 100s/1000s of people jumping to their death. Utterly unacceptable.

I just missed the accident yesterday and turned on as the teams were waiting for the track to open. I have no intention of viewing it on youtube or the news, showing it is completely uneccessary.

Brings to mind when we were at the Canadian GP sat at the hairpin where Kubica had that enormous crash. For about 15 mins we all thought he was dead and there was a real feeling that you just didn't want to be there any more. Of course Kubica was lucky that day.

EDIT to Gads comment. There are very few people that you actually see die live on tv. Maybe someone who is dying, but to actually see the death is very unusual.

 

Simoncelli didn't die instantly according to the news reports - he later "succumbed to his injuries"

Similar scenario to Senna

And Sheldon...

I said in the Sheldon thread I wouldn't want to see gory images and if had been decapitated I would not have wanted it transmitted

Working backwards from such an extreme situation it becomes a matter of judgement and judgements differ

 

"Vale is absolutely not thinking of retiring, I'm sorry that these false stories are doing the rounds in times like these". Alessio Saluccio, friend and assistent to Valentino Rossi, denies the rumours that Rossi wants to say farewell to his career following the tragic accident in Sepang in which the champion from Tavullia was unintentionally involved in fatally running over friend Marco Simoncelli.

 

Listening to Steve Parrish he expects everyone to race at Valencia as normal.
Maybe not Edwards with his shoulder.

 

Fair point but until recently you would never see a replay of Sennas crash. The Senna movie was the first time I'd seen it since it happened, and that was uncomfortable viewing for me.

Of course the internet and Youtube have meant that you can see pretty much whatever you like and censor for yourselves these days. Which is no bad thing, but I still think the news programmes have a responsibility to keep an eye on the taste of what they are broadcasting, especially when you bear in mind that anyone who really wants to see this can choose to do so.

 

Thankfully they didn't show him sliding on his face down the track.
That will stick with me.

Watching the Senna film I can't remember who it was but when the yellow car was smashed up and the driver mangled in the track. That was horrific, but I think he survived.

 

Probably Martin Donnelly.

 

Yep
1990 Jerez crash

 

Ratzenburgers was pretty disturbing too, you could see his body through the destroyed side of the car.

 

Let's at least try and get the late Dan Wheldon's name right ...