Columnist JaneTribune has taken aim at the media’s reporting of the Brisbane car fire tragedy, saying “there have been so many unbelievably bad” headlines.
Columnist Jane Gilmore has taken aim at the media’s reporting of the Brisbane car fire tragedy, saying “there have been so many unbelievably bad” headlines. A mother and her three children were killed at the hands of her estranged husband when he doused petrol on their vehicle and set it alight on Wednesday. Ms Gilmore told Sky News “I find the reporting on this really troubling”.
She said one headline "that really stood out" was 'Ex-footy star dies in burning car showered his kids with love' because "the only death that made it to the headline was his". “If I was a father, a loving father, I would be outraged at having the words ‘loving father’ applied to someone who would burn his kids alive,” she said. “That’s not a loving father.
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