Reporting or voyeurism?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 23/04/2009

Was it a slow news day that made several news channels live off the death of a Delhi schoolgirl from asthma? Arnab Goswami on Times Now kept goading the dead girl¿s mother to react, NDTV, CNN IBN, Aaj Tak, all helped convert a press conference at the school into an exercise in voyeurism.  Is it  responsible journalism to thrust mikes down the throats of students who were visibly upset and screaming at the principal?