Why does it matter if enthusiasts and those morbidly attracted to watching someone else's peril live, miss or ignore "potentially serious" emergency squawk?
It's done for the benefit of ATC and those involved......
Agreed, it doesn't - but the problem is there are so many ill informed, to be frank, dim journalists out there who read this drivel and then act upon it.
I, personally, also fail to understand why people feel it necessary to post such things as again, until the facts come out (sick passenger for example) mountains can far too easily be made from molehills, and far too often are.