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Old 2nd Oct 2015, 11:06
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Chris Scott
 
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The Mail Online article seems to be factually correct, and the fact that Mr Hill has left hospital and apparently able to walk unaided is good news. I cannot see anything wrong in reporting it, and by media standards the article is not sensationalist.

Everyone is different, but I doubt that naming and describing the victims again will necessarily increase the pain of their loved ones. In bereavement, recognition can even be preferable to silence.

Publishing a current photograph of Andy Hill is quite another matter. Whatever the cause of the crash, it was an accident of which he was himself a victim. Unlike a politician or show-biz personality, for example, he has never courted or enjoyed publicity, so any hounding for interview and/or photography is completely unjustified. Unfortunately, it provides valuable revenue for the cash-strapped medium concerned, and we have just contributed to that by clicking on that link.
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