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Following the tragic death of Robin Williams I've read various articles, online and in print, that go into quite graphic detail about his final moments and how he was found.

It leads me to wonder why the authorities (coroner, sheriffs dept etc) feel the need to release that into the public domain. Surely the families must find it upsetting. I'm all for freedom of info but some things are maybe best left away from the public eye.

An example if one's needed: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robin-williams-death-due-hanging-724959
 
From what i have seen or read allot came from the police radio and someone picked it up via a police scanner. I was saying this morning that this needs to be dealt with somehow. not sure how mind you
 
As long as people are ghoulish enough to want to know all the details, the gutter press will continue to publish them.
 
viv1969 said:
As long as people are ghoulish enough to want to know all the details, the gutter press will continue to publish them.
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Sadly thats true, its a bit like a modern Penny Dreadful.
 
I think it's a case, as Terri has mentioned that the info was picked up and made available.
I'd rather the sheriffs department etc officially announce the information so there can be little doubt, as opposed to the press reporting their theories and rumours.
 
Yes, but even then, the media would still be speculating about his marriage, the state of his finances, his addicitons.
They're like vultures. Constant pick pick pick. Never a second of consideration for families. It's very sad :(
 
dont really see too much of a problem. the coroners report would put a lot of information out in the open anyway. and like andrew said, sometimes its best to get the correct facts out there to prevent theories and speculation. the family would most likely know the details anyway so its no extra upset for them.
 
I read the artcle in your link and it neither shocked nor horrified me. If anything it described something of the sadness of a man comitting suicide.

More generally, of course, the spread of information is an analogue of Parkinson's Law - information expands to fill the space available, and the internet is infinite! Just look at how much twaddle we all sprout to use up the bandwidth in Out Of Focus! :whistle:

As a tiny anecdote, I first learnt that fact when I had a motor racing business and there were two British weekly publications. Autosport was an A4 sized magazine. MotoringNews was a broadsheet sized newspaper. I very quickly found I could trust the MotoringNews journalist much less with observations 'off the record', simply because he needed to cover more paper with more words every week!
 
Unfortunately it's the way the world is today. Nothing is regarded as private now. So-called celebrities, and even the great unwashed, seem to want to share every tiny detail of their lives via Facebook, Twitter, Hello and all the other trashy publications. Scanning the emergency services wave bands is just another way of tapping into this obsession for knowing the minutiae of celebrities lives. Hardly surprising that the people who lap this nonsense up demand to know all the details of a persons death, even before the coroner files his report.
 
viv1969 said:
Yes, but even then, the media would still be speculating about his marriage, the state of his finances, his addicitons.
They're like vultures. Constant pick pick pick. Never a second of consideration for families. It's very sad :(
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sells papers - if people didn't buy it , journalists wouldn't do it - so really its the public who are to blame (often the same public as those moaning about it)
 
big soft moose said:
sells papers - if people didn't buy it , journalists wouldn't do it - so really its the public who are to blame (often the same public as those moaning about it)
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Doesn't sell them to me.
 
not read it yet but can't be any worse than the way David carradine went lol
 
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