When grief becomes clickbait: Why Cyprus needs legal boundaries on death reporting
Jul 16
1 min read
A race for clicks at the expense of human dignity
The commercialisation of human grief by sections of the media has reached an unacceptable point. Increasingly, news websites compete to be the first to publish reports of a person’s death, with competing outlets rapidly reproducing the same story in pursuit of clicks, page views and advertising revenue.
This is particularly disturbing when the victims are children. In such moments, there is rarely any genuine public interest that justifies the immediate publication and endless republication of these stories. Instead, the motivation is often painfully obvious: more clicks, more page views, more advertising revenue.
A person’s death should never become a commercial product.
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