Tasteless exclusive

IN Media Watch Briefs | 07/01/2015

Headlines Today served up on January 6 night a classic example of living rather distastefully off  the dead. The channel obtained footage of Sunanda Pushkar after her death in a hotel room, focused repeatedly on injury marks on her body, and anchor and reporter kept spinning out the same details of their "exclusive"  as the footage was looped. Are there no norms to be followed in reporting such news? The anchor advised viewer discretion when the story began. How about some newsroom discretion?