{"id":101703,"date":"2017-04-04T10:51:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T10:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=101703"},"modified":"2017-04-04T10:57:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T10:57:26","slug":"met-police-extremely-upset-by-front-page-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/met-police-extremely-upset-by-front-page-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Police \u201cExtremely upset\u201d by front page image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>The Metropolitan Police\u2019s communications chief, Martin Fewell, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressgazette.co.uk\/met-police-pr-chief-says-officers-were-extremely-upset-by-times-front-page-image\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>spoken out<\/u><\/a>\u00a0about an image on the front page of The Times newspaper showing PC Keith Palmer as he lay dying following the recent Westminster terror attacks.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fewell, who previously worked as a deputy editor on Channel 4 News, spoke with journalists on Radio 4\u2019s Media Show and said: \u201cWe both have lost colleagues and I don\u2019t think our news organisation would have put images of dying colleagues on the television and I don\u2019t think those around the table from newspapers would expect their news organisations to put pictures of dying colleagues in their newspapers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fewell continued: \u201cThere was a real sentiment within the Met Police that was frankly extremely upset about that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t want to see the family and the colleagues of Keith Palmer upset by those [images]\u2026It was important news organisation didn\u2019t use images in social media where they can be shared around and used as trophies to glamorise the actions of an attacker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Times deputy editor Emma Tucker, also speaking on Radio 4, was unapologetic and said: \u201cWe never set out to offend or upset people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the Friday it was clear that one of the key stories that was emerging was the story of a security lapse, the fact that an unarmed police officer had been murdered in the precinct of the Houses of Parliament and the gates remained open after the attacker had got in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tucker continued: \u201cIf the officer hadn\u2019t died I don\u2019t think people would have minded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if she regretted that The Times running the image, Tucker said: \u201cAbsolutely not\u2026 This was a picture that was an important illustration of a story about a security lapse, I totally stand by the fact that we used it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is a picture worth a thousand words or is the sharing of some images simply gratuitous and unnecessary? \u00a0Share your comments below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metropolitan Police\u2019s communications chief, Martin Fewell, has spoken out about an image on the front page of The Times newspaper showing PC Keith Palmer as he lay dying following the recent Westminster terror attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":101704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3729,3734],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101926,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101703\/revisions\/101926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}