These are decisions made by humans who could see the same things I could and they made me feel physically sick. I work in TV (not trying to grab authority here just my experience) and this is the absolute basics of broadcasting ethics I'm afraid.
Be it UEFA/Danish TV producers and/or the BBC leaving the feed up, there were very very poor decisions made which made a public spectacle of a man in extreme medical distress - and as far as we could tell, maybe on the verge of death. Not only that, his traumatised wife and colleagues. And without any of their consent or a clear public interest - which is the bedrock of deciding what goes on TV.
They could have changed the image to almost anything at the touch of a button but they did not. I've been in lots of live TV galleries but you don't need to have been to know how easy it is to NOT to show this.
"What do we show instead?" they probably asked themselves, with the ambient worries you always have of audience, your bosses, press reaction. The answer is 'anything else.'
It's a disgrace, there's no defence, and I fully expect and hope for an investigation and serious repercussions.
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