I WANT MY DADDY

"I want my daddy"
http://newsday.co.tt/news/0,77075.html,
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161310773,
http://guardian.co.tt/news6.html

The children left behind by Sharma Sieuchand had to mourn for their late father in front of the entire country, and now the entire world.
They were not mourning the man who tried to kill them, as we see him, but they were mourning the man whom they knew loved them.

What was the thinking behind exposing these two children to the gossip we know will follow them for the rest of their lives?
Ok. So all their classmates and the villagers knew who they were. But the rest of us didn't. They could have gone on with their lives without everyone they now meet feeling pity for them.

Where was the discussion in the news planning meetings on how this sensitive situation would be handled? Clearly it was "Get a good shot of them"; "Get a good soundbite".

What is the media's responsibility to these two children, and others like them?
Remember Lily a few years back? The little girl whose father forced her and her brother to drink poison before he also consumed the deadly liquid? Lily died almost instantly, but her brother survived.
The next day, the Newsday carried a picture of the dead child laying on her bed wearing only a panty.
We question the motives of media houses in these situations, because there's always the argument that that's what viewers and readers want to see.
Whose interests did it serve to show the body of a child who died under such terrible circumstances? Why wasn't she allowed to die with some dignity? Why weren't the two newest victims of this type of tragedy allowed to grieve with some dignity?

Then there was the female executive who recently took her own life. Why weren't there photos of her body and grieving relatives splashed across the web? Could it be because her family hired private security to keep the media out of her funeral?
So little children have to suffer and grieve in the full glare of the public because their families can't afford private security?