EXPLOITATION: A CURRENT AFFAIR

Remember that super-sensational "news" show from the 80's, "A Current Affair"? If not, it was a news magazine show that liked to show video of people getting hurt and real morbidly curious things like that.
I was flipping through the channels today and heard someone talking about "posing dead bodies in the name of art" and I stopped on the channel. I had heard of an interesting artist who replaced the blood in donated dead bodies with plastic and then posed them. I thought this might be related. In fact, this artist, Thomas Condon, snuck into a morgue and posed the bodies there with objects and photographed them. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail. I was horrified at what this man did. I am all for fringe artists like Andres Serrano and Damien Hirst, but this seemed illegal and just flat out wrong. The reporter told us all how horrible this was, and how exploitative it was, not to mention "the worst form of invasion of privacy."
For the next 10 minutes, we are treated to video of the families identifying their dead loved ones from photographs. We are then shown interviews in which the living relatives tell about how they found out their loved ones were dead. We linger on their contorted, crying faces. Exploitation, indeed.
When the piece was over, the host was standing there with a sour face on and he says, "I hope he STAYS in jail, along with anyone who helped him...that's just....anyway..." What a professional!
Then, A Current Affiar tackled the Michael Jackson case, by telling us all about the little kid at the center of the first molestation case. We are told he's in hiding and doesn't talk about the case. We are then shown video of the kid, now 20 or so, skiing and hanging out with his friends. We are told what college he went to and what he majored in. Invasion of privacy, indeed.