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Originally Posted by jfman
Suspect there will be questions to answer about the TV coverage (which I know was provided to the BBC but they could still have opted out).
Much is being made of the players making a shield - notably they did that at one side only not to block the view of the few fans in that stand only the TV coverage. The players would be able to see from the big screen that the cameras were focussing on the incident. The fact the director didn’t take the hint is a bit ridiculous.
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Not really - the Bradford City stadium fire, and the Hillsborough and Heysel disasters were all broadcast on live TV. In Bradford, the commentator kept talking, even when people started stumbling across the pitch with their clothes on fire. It was horrific to watch, but real events unfold, they aren't flagged in advance. There's no script detailing when to cut the feed. In any case, at some point what was a sporting event becomes live news and the media has a moral duty to record and report what's happening. In the case of Christian Eriksen, even the players forming a shield around him is part of the unfolding story. In Bradford, the TV footage has been invaluable in fire safety planning and training ever since.