Forum - View topicStop publishing articles on the identities of the victims of the KyoAni Studio Fire
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Dont understand why there is a need to keep the victims and such secret and hidden as we owe it to the victims to not forget them but to remember them and highlight their contributions to the field and to their family and community.
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Tempest
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Well, in situations like this, it's standard journalism policy to not announce any deaths until they are announced either by the police or by the family of the victims. There are a couple reasons for this: 1 - We don't want the family to learn about it from the newspaper. They deserve to know first. 2 - Unofficial sources might be wrong and any false reporting based on that could cause unnecessary anguish to the family. All of this is extremely reasonable and I support it. I don't support journalists who go against this and try to scoop the official announcements. If the reports of journalists pestering funeral workers is true, those journalists are scum. However, in this case, KyoAni is asking for journalists to do break established protool. They are asking journalists to disregard statements from the family and wait for KyoAni to announce the deaths after the funerals. It's not a normal request, and it puts us in an extremely tough position. It's not at all normal to wait until after the funeral to announce report on victims of a tragedy, especially victims of note. There are established guidelines on how to deal with tragedies, established by expert consensus from leaders in our field. Accepting KyoAni's request would be to disregard the established rules in a way that compromises the quality of our reporting. It's an extremely tough situation for our reporters because they (we) love KyoAni so much (We interviewed them at AX, I have friends there). Edit: When I say "it's not a normal request," I'm not suggesting that KyoAni should know what a "normal request" is. Given the situation, I don't think any request, regardless of whether it can be met, is unreasonable. Last edited by Tempest on Fri Jul 26, 2019 3:11 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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yuna49
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Is it an abnormal request in Japan? I'd imagine journalists there might operate under a somewhat different set of ethical standards than those in the West. |
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Tempest
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That's an extremely good question that I don't know the answer to. I have an assumption; based on Mainichi Shimbun's and Nikkei's decisions, I assume they operate under similar guidelines as us. But that's only an assumption, I'll try to find out. *corrected mistake with media name. |
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Dessa
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Interesting bit of history for you here. In the US, it is illegal for the media to release the names of victims before the families have been notified. The reason for this is the February 3, 1959 plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper (JP Richardson). Being big-name musicians, the news reported their names, and Holly's wife heard about it that way, and the shock was enough for her to miscarry their child. The plane crash has actually gone down in history as "The Day the Music Died," as memorialized in the song American Pie. In fact, the line "I can't remember if I cried when I heard about his widowed bride" is in reference to Holly's wife. But because of this incident, the laws were changed so that the families had to be notified first. |
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JMmelegrito
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Whenever I'm watching The First 48, whether on A&E in the United States or somewhere else, the police always try their hardest to inform the families first, because they know that it would be much painful if they would simply be informed that their loved ones died while watching the news.
To be honest, I'm not really surprised that newspapers in Japan will go totally low, considering they typically look for the next big scandal everytime... but do these so-called journalists get incentives when they get a scoop? |
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herongale
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From the article itself, it says that the immediate family were initially telling friends and relatives that Naomi Ishida was safe, based on their own erroneous belief that she was working at the 2nd studio. It seems to me that the family wanted their own error corrected, so it's possible that they themselves reached out to the newspaper to make sure this happened. Even if it were the newspaper itself reaching out, the family's incentive for speaking out is pretty clear: they wanted friends and family to understand the actual facts, and probably (this is my assumption here) did not want to have to deal with the emotional burden of having misinformation spread through social networks they themselves participate in. |
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Tempest
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nobahn
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Tempest―
Today I was reading a piece on www.politico.com which linked to this article that was edited by Matthew Kassel. As I read the last section of that article, I couldn't help but be reminded of your post. If you don't mind, I'm going to quote that section of the article that is written by Mosi Secret, who is ─ amongst other things ─ a freelance journalist.
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omiya
Posts: 1846 Location: Adelaide, South Australia |
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Kyoto Police have announced the identities of the others who have died as a result of the incident and some news outlets have published a full list and others have not. Is ANN intending to mention or link to the full list and give tributes to the others? |
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Spastic Minnow
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Exempt from Grammar Rules Posts: 4629 Location: Gainesville, FL |
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^^^
Oddly, The announcement is mentioned in passing in this article but not the headline: Kyoto Animation Official Online Store Reopens I'm sure they'll put forward more substantive tributes when ready. The first batch of tributes were of high quality. They took time to write. The wishes of the families are still debatable. At this time only five names are definitely cleared by families to be released. |
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