I AM not sure why Martin Wyness (Hereford Times, June 7) is so upset with Channel 4 because it screened (I am told) pictures of a road traffic accident in a Paris tunnel.

Quite apart from the glaring and emotive inaccuracies in his letter - eg "We watch Diana drawing her last breath" when she didn't die there and no such pictures were, or ever have been broadcast, why attack Channel 4 in particular?

Auntie BBC had, the day before the Diana broadcast, the row between the Princes and Channel 4 as its lead news item - with almost visible glee at the discomfiture of its rival broadcaster. Its second item was a live TV broadcast from outside a tent that had been erected in a Glastonbury cemetery to hide the exhumation of a body from people like our beloved BBC news crew!

Where, please, is the public outrage at the hurt and distress' caused to the family of that old lady - let alone the families of the victims of the latest highly publicised bombing in Baghdad or Kabul?

Mr Wyness must also know perfectly well that pictures of fatal accidents from years before are staple fare for a whole range of TV programmes about the work of our dear traffic police Sorry, but both the families and supporters of people like the sainted Diana have to recognise that the public interest coin has two sides - you can't use a privileged public position to play to the PR gallery and have privacy whenever you feel like it!

Geoff Richmond, Coppice Close, Withington.