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I'm not sure what your point (lol) is, but yes I deliberately included the word "some" and deliberately emphasised it.
Clearly not all journalists are loathsome and clearly some do incredibly valuable work, at great personal risk to themselves.
But to invite comparison between the exposure of the Thalidomide scandal and the "doorstepping" of the victims of terrorism and their relatives, is a nonsense.
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I guess my main point is people getting angry about journalists doing journalism.
Take the Telegraph example - it's not harassment to try and contact the family of people involved in an attack to speak to them. Repeatedly doing so or doing so when it was made clear they were unwelcome would be harassment. Sticking a polite note through the door with your business card isn't. Journalists gather and report news and this is one way of doing it - people might find that distasteful and an intrusion but the IPSO code of practice says this:
In cases involving personal grief or shock, enquiries and approaches must be made with sympathy and discretion and publication handled sensitively.
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