The ethical decisions around coverage of the Singleton bus crash can be difficult and nuanced
When I first saw the photos of people who died in the Singleton bus crash, I felt the weight of horror that engulfed the news. In those images, I saw youth, happiness, community and love. They helped me absorb the enormity of the event so much deeper than the fact that “10 people died”.
But when I heard that some of those photographs were downloaded, without permission, from the victims’ social media pages, a new feeling emerged: dejection.