Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 6, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba a4 Winnipeg free press wednesday september 6, 2006 top news Steve Holland / associated press visitors deliver Flowers to Australia zoo yesterday at Beerah Home of Media personality and environmentalist Steve Irwin who died on the great Barrier reef in far North Queensland monday. Should death tape be made Public video of instant web videos might it get out and in the broader sense is making footage of a death Public Ever justified states becoming a Star As the Crocodile Hunter on discovery a animal planet Channel. In an interview with associated death of Timothy Treadwell a Bear enthusiast who lived among them for a dozen years in Alaska before being fatal cases Freedman believes where there is a compelling Public interest in having the option ? As in the voluntary Click of Croc Hunters for its part discovery communications the network where Irwin became a Star said there was absolutely no truth press radio in 2002, he discussed his passion for grappling with crocodiles that a what my hand and my brains Are by mauled in 2003. A video camera with the Lens Cap on captured the audio of that attack. It is in a mouse ? to see the reality of a grisly death. To learn the harsh lessons of War for example or to witness the brutality to rumours that the footage now in pos designed to do he said with his Trade Possession of a Friend and has never of the beheading by islamic militants encounter session of police in Queensland Australia might be released. But that does to mean there Arent con Mark enthusiasm. That a what i have to give to the emerged in Public ? though in his acclaimed documentary grizzly Man director Werner Herzog in Iraq ? videos that were posted on websites used by the militants. Others have argued that the existence of the by Jocelyn Noveck new York ? if i a going to die the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin said in a 2002 inter View at least i want it he spoke with his usual Humour and clearly had no idea what would happen four years later. But the fact is a tape does exist of Irwin a fatal encounter with a Stingray while filming a to show. And so the question arises in the age of under wraps Cerns that someone could attempt to get their hands on it and publicize it for lurid Means ? or just to show they had it. That said Media analyst Martin Kaplan would be tantamount to a snuff film. The Only Remote justification for publicizing this would be Accident Preven Tion said Kaplan of the Annenberg school for communication at the University of Southern California. But that argument is a experts say deaths from a Stingray encounter Are exceedingly rare. Irwin died monday at age 44 after being stabbed in the Chest by the stingrays poisonous spine while filming on the great Barrier reef. He was hugely popular in the United in the same interview he noted if i a going to die at least i want it filmed. If we blew a million dollars Worth of cameras at least we could have gone to Mem and gone hey look at this Irwin a manager and close Friend John Stainton had the painful experience of watching the videotape where Irwin pulls the Stingray Barb from his Chest. He called it its a very hard thing to watch because you Are actually witnessing somebody die and its terrible he told reporters. The fact that a tape exists recalls the was seen listening to it with headphones on. Samuel Freedman who teaches a Media ethics class at the Columbia University graduate school of journalism says the Issue is whether there is any compelling Public interest in the release of something so shocking As footage of a death. Here he says there clearly in to. The Lay person is not going into the water trying to have encounters with stingrays Freedman said. It would be purely titillation and necrophilia if any one were to show there Are dramatically different if i a going to die at least i want it filmed ? the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin in 2002 militant videos is appalling but those Are very particular cases. In general the explanations fall Flat says Kaplan of the Annenberg school As when the italian Magazine that recently published a photo of Princess Diana get Ting oxygen moments after her fatal car crash called it tender and in an Era where almost everything ends up making it to the web is it inevitable that such a tape As that of Irwin a death would emerge Only in the sense that there a a race for the Bottom in our culture Kaplan says. 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