Three journalist dress as a nurse to take picture of a dead pop star

Chinese journalists have been accused of sneaking into a hospital,
dressed as nurses, to take photographs of the dead body of a female
pop star.
Three Shenzhen Evening News reporters were apparently let into
Shenzhen's Peking University Hospital by a doctor to take pictures of
Yao Beina, who died of cancer on Friday aged 33.
Yao's agent, Bo Ning, said her family stepped in to prevent the
photographs being published. "Do you have any bottom line as a
human being!" Bo wrote on Weibo, China's Twitter. The newspaper has
since apologised.
Yao was known for her theme song to the hit film 1942 before being
diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011.
After undergoing a mastectomy, Yao went on to star in Voice of China
and recorded the Chinese version of Let It Go, from the Disney
animated film Frozen but doctors found that the cancer had spread to
her lungs and brain and she was admitted to hospital in late
December.
Her long medical battle and decision
to donate her corneas won her many
fans who were swift to condemn the
journalists, with millions of reposts
and comments about the scandal on
Sunday.
Many condemned the sleazy tactics
employed by China's tabloids, whose
celebrity muck-racking has mostly
escaped oversight in what is one of
the most restrictive press
environments in the world.
Yuan Tao, general manager of Huayi Brothers Music Corp, who publish
Yao's records, said when the family objected, the journalists
complained that their "press freedom" was being restricted. "[The
journalists'] should be dead themselves and have someone else take
pictures of their bodies, so they know how it feels," one commenter
wrote.
While China's state media used the recent Charlie Hebdo attack in
Paris to justify its ongoing crackdown on free speech, one area
remains relatively under-policed: entertainment journalism.
After Beijing removed state subsidies for newspapers in the late 1990s,
many titles were left stranded. Others quickly embraced tabloid gossip
and PR-fuelling celebrity news, creating a market-driven renaissance
in print sales of "urban media".
But while this business model usually avoids the ire of censors, there
has been frequent criticism of the media's aggressive tactics, with
journalists often mobbing disaster victims and door-stepping hospital
patients.
Some have compared the Yao photographs scandal to the terror
attacks in Paris. "Now you know why Charlie was killed," said one,
alluding to public anger toward journalists.
Others even suggested the scandal is being promoted as a convenient
way for the government to smear the media. "First, CCTV manipulated
an interview with a victim of the 'Charlie' attack," said one
commentator, referring to a widely condemned report by the state
channel. "Now Yao's news. They truly show the ugly side of
journalism!"