€50,000 for CCTV video of Paris attack
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/25/mail-online-us-almost-doubles-advertising-revenues
The Daily Mail has been accused of paying £35,000 to obtain video of one of the terrorist attacks in Paris that had been encrypted by French police to prevent it being made public.Representatives of the Mail are then believed to have destroyed the original source material from the CCTV cameras inside the besieged Paris cafe to ensure no other media organisation could obtain it
- Asked by Petit Journal presenter Yann Barthès why he had decided to tell his story, Aoudia replied: “I think we are in a very painful period, a very difficult and sensitive period. People can buy pictures, of course people do buy pictures, we’ve seen that.
- “But we are in an atmosphere of terrorism here and I think people should maybe think twice about broadcasting this kind of material – the more so because at least until it was broadcast, it was confidential to an ongoing investigation.”
In my opinion the daily mail is presented as a powerful and money thirsty media conglomerates. They desensitised by the attacks and therefore, cause controversy when covering these sensitive topics.
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