British tabloid newspaper The Sun is facing backlash over mocking up a graphic front cover of the on-camera murder of WDBJ7 journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward.
The reporter and cameraman were tragically shot during a live broadcast in Virginia, US, on Wednesday morning. The gunman later died from a self-inflicted gun wound.
The graphic front cover features an image of Ward conducting her interview, with a hand shooting a gun at her.
The cover is viewable here, although a pre-warning, it may distress some.
When The Sun posted the image of its front cover to Twitter, the platform’s users vented their outrage at the images depicted.
One user described it “gratuitous. Vile. Abhorrent”, with another calling The Sun “scum”.
.@TheSun This disgusts me. Have you no respect? Gratuitous. Vile. Abhorrent. Any term of condemnation, apply it to how people feel about.
— Natalie McGarry MP (@NatalieMcGarry) August 26, 2015
.@TheSun Scum
— Luke Whiston (@LukeWhiston) August 27, 2015
If you work for or buy The Sun, do the decent thing and stop. “@TheSun: Here’s tomorrow’s front page pic.twitter.com/tr4dtEvZFM”
— Sonny Malhotra (@PhotoSonny) August 26, 2015
“@TheSun: Here’s tomorrow’s front page pic.twitter.com/a0uuLsQsM8” wow you disgusting human beings I didn’t think you could sink that low
— Tom (@tom_m0ran) August 26, 2015
.@TheSun This newspaper, everyone who owns it, everyone who writes for it and everyone who reads it is fucking despicable.
— Ethan Lawrence (@EthanDLawrence) August 26, 2015
.@TheSun How can you bunch of ghouls sleep at night? Where is your respect for the murdered? Where is your scrap of human compassion?
— Ethan Lawrence (@EthanDLawrence) August 26, 2015
@TheSun where is your compassion FFS this is a fellow human being…have you no morals….? Evidently not! Disgusting…..
— ✨Mrs M!!☀ (@Lilywhitekicks) August 26, 2015
.@TheSun Congratulations, you just made the world significantly worse. Again. Really slow clap.
— FuturLab (@FuturLab) August 26, 2015
After the horrific event journalists around the world united on Twitter with the hashtag #WeStandWithWDBJ.
