Celebrity Deaths: Does the Media Cross the Line?

As you all know, 40-year-old actor Paul Walker died Saturday afternoon after the Porsche he was riding in lost control and slammed into either a light pole or a tree.

You can see in the photo down below just how bad the crash was. The car was completely destroyed and Paul Walker and his friend who was driving the car died at the scene.

According to multiple reports, their bodies were burned so badly that the official identification and autopsies have had to be delayed until the coroner gets their dental records.

The tragic news has been hard on just about everyone, especially his co-stars from the “Fast and Furious” movies. Just the other day, TMZ showed an emotional video of Tyrese breaking down at the scene of the crash.

I’m not going to post the video on here because it just seems wrong. It seems like that is crossing a line. There is a difference between reporting the news of his death, and filming a guy who just lost one of his best friends.

An actor dies in a car crash? That’s news, I get that. We reported the heartbreaking news to you all Saturday night right after it happened. However, watching some poor guy cry his eyes out because he just lost a good friend is not news.

That’s a personal moment that shouldn’t be shared with the cameras. Trying to profit off this accident is just sickening to me.

Just think about it this way. If your friend/family member had just died, would you want to be filmed while you mourn their death? It’s sick and wrong to me. Yeah, he might have been famous, but he was also just another human in this f–ked up world.

He had a daughter and he had close friends who loved him very much. Let’s try to respect their privacy.