opinion: Reflex
Le Devoir newspaper edition of Friday, September 22, 2006
Jean Robillard
philosopher and professor of communications at UQAM-TELUQ
Decidedly a tragedy to another, journalists do not learn, or so little. Respect for individuals, actors more or less directly related to an event like the shooting at Dawson College, is a value that seems now disappeared from the radar screen media.
Readers Duty questioned the merits of the broadcast address of the killer's family? The direction of their newspaper published a note (Saturday, September 16, 2006) which highlights this pattern to the decision to make: "It's a reflex to deliver the most accurate information possible that this detail was found in our pages. "reflex? Detail? Let us instead.
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