Lawlor coverage a major blow to press credibility
All involved in this despicable episode have inflicted immeasurable damage on the credibility of the press here and they have added to the grief of the Lawlor family by their unfounded and reckless reporting in the Sunday print media.
Accountability does not rest solely with the journalists... it extends also to management who have presided over this type of reporting to enhance sales of their papers.
The cowardice of those who attack the dead before their remains are cold, knowing they cannot respond, is not new in our media some Sunday newspapers do it on a regular basis.
The carefully worded apology of Independent Newspapers at least is an acknowledgement that, in their defamation of the dead, they surpassed what most of their readers were prepared to tolerate. Let us hope that this new low in sections of our media is the bottom of the slurry pit. The Irish people are entitled to the truth in the news not the depraved imaginations of some media people who apparently have no respect for the living or the dead.
John J Hassett
Croke Street
Thurles
Co Tipperary
