Audience outrage in Perth in May this year resulted in the sacking of two channel Seven journalists for intruding on a woman's private grief. This article looks at some of the issues of media intrusion into private grief from the points of view of the audience, the bereaved and the news.
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Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, Violence on Television, Sydney, ABT, 1990.
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BrookTom, ‘Shooting Pain’, The Listener, 14 September 1989, 19.
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GeraintJohnWillcockDavid, ‘Grief Observed’, The Listener, 11 August 1988, 4–7.
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National Committee on Violence, Violence on Television, Canberra, Australian Institute of Criminology, 1989.
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RaphaelBeverley, The Anatomy of Bereavement, London, Hutchinson, 1984.
