
While reporting on apartment-jumping Russian model Ruslana Korshunova, who reportedly committed suicide on Sunday after leaping to her death, Fox News broke what most media types would argue is an ethics commandment: Thou shalt not show the dead. This tenet falls somewhere next to "Thou shalt not show sex abuse victims," though clearly on the other side of "Thou shalt be OK if you show a dead Saddam Hussein hanging from the rafters." Now, following its various apologies to Obama's camp, FNC is apologizing for broadcasting Korshunova's corpse, lying partially covered by a sheet on the street. CONTINUED »
Supermodel Ruslana Korshunova, the one-time cover girl of French Elle and Russian Vogue who supposedly flung herself off the balcony of her 9th floor downtown apartment yesterday, may have, like so many before her, left clues about her inner suffering in the dumpster of all emotions: the Internet. One line in particular — "My dream is to fly. Oh, my rainbow it is too high." — is already being highlighted as the "foretelling" bit from her online postings, though, in all likelihood, had nothing to do with how she planned to take her own life. [Daily Mail]