Should the news be playing 911 phone calls?

[Moonchild22]

To be clear, I'm talking about America's emergency phone number 911, not the day 9/11. I believe the U.K.'s emergency number is 999.

Do you believe it is necessary for these 911 phone calls to be played on the news for the general public to hear?

It used to just be a very occasional thing to hear a 911 call on the news, but now it is almost every day.
Do we need to hear people's frantic dialogue, screaming, crying? Is it somehow useful? Remember when all a reporter had to do was report the news? Video footage, ok. Pictures, ok. Eyewitness statements, ok. Is that not enough? Do we need further proof that the story is true - at the expense of exploiting the worst moments of someone's life?
(are you not entertained?)
I'm not the most sensitive person around, but it seems really distasteful and disrespectful to the people involved. It shows a lack of class.
Are they just trying to make their news show more interesting or enticing...entertaining? It appears to me as gratuitous shock value. Maybe it's because we live in this world of 'reality' shows, etc. being more popular than fiction, so they figure people want to hear it. I don't know.
Am I overlooking something here?

 

[Moonchild22]

Please close this. It's a double post.

 

[Ulysses31]

Just reality tv gone further, I agree with your point but if even one person hears and uses the advice they hear from the operator on the programme to save a life then I suppose it can do some good. In any case you put on any news channel and all you see is videos of dead kids in Afghanistan, Libya or Palestine and it doesn't get much more demoralising than that. I would hope people have to give permission before their voice/image can be displayed, I would hope.