Posted on 07/14/2008 12:50:13 PM PDT by Bill Dupray
Hey, at least he got the shot, right? Isn't that all that matters? I mean come on, he's a photo-journalist for goodness sake. He can't inject himself into the story. That would be a breach of journalistic ethics. A real credit to his profession, this guy. Photos, but no video.
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Swords and guns beat camera.
I’m really not sure what he could have done. At least by getting out the video, people may be reminded, anew, the nature of our enemy.
How about leaving the assignment and calling in the friggin’ Marines?
Prayers their souls find peace and the murders souls NEVER find peace.
I don’t know if it has been edited or not, but this is the video:
http://broadband.indiatimes.com/showvideo/3230424.cms
Taliban kills two Afghan prostitutes
It’s difficult for me to generate any feelings of sympathy for members of the media that get killed over there. Sure, some aren’t MSM slime, but so many are that it’s difficult to keep track (like there’s some kind of 50/50 balance). Not wishing violent death on ‘journalists’ you understand, just not bothered by it when they become the victims.
>> AP Photographer Shoots Photos and Snuff Video of Taliban Executing Two Women. And Does Nothing.
This isn’t Jack Bauer, federal government super-ninja — he’s a freaking camera man.
If he’d done anything, he’d have certainly died with them.
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Mike Wallace: Journalist First, American Second (with Vintage Video)
http://newsbusters.org/node/4479
on an edition of the PBS panel series Ethics in America, devoted to war coverage, which was taped at Harvard in late 1987, Mike Wallace proclaimed that if he were traveling with enemy soldiers he would not warn U.S. soldiers of an impending ambush. “Don’t you have a higher duty as an American citizen to do all you can to save the lives of soldiers rather than this journalistic ethic of reporting fact?”, moderator Charles Ogletree Jr. suggested. Without hesitating, Wallace responded: “No, you don’t have higher duty...you’re a reporter.” When Brent Scrowcroft, the then-future National Security Adviser, argued that “you’re Americans first, and you’re journalists second,” Wallace was mystified by the concept, wondering “what in the world is wrong with photographing this attack by [the imaginary] North Kosanese on American soldiers?”
Y’all need to see this one.
Ping
Exactly. I fail to see what the camera guy could have done except get himself killed.
The important thing is that his pics and video have alerted the world anew to the Taliban's barbarity. That awareness may end up saving lives.
Things don't work that way. There was no reasonable chance that an AP photographer could have prevented these murders, but perhaps he got the pictures of the assailants that can be used to apprehend them.
Other than the Taliban were using the AP as propaganda agents. You can be sure he wouldn’t have been taking the pic if the murderers didn’t want him to.
I couldn't tell you if any murder happened at all.....
Are we sure Dan Rather didn't "film" this?
Exactly.
Reminds me of the photo of a collapsed African toddler and a vulture a few feet away. The photographer was so traumatized that he didn’t do more to help her, that he killed himself.
He’s a photo-journalist. Not a man.
I am not sure that the unarmed camera man could do anything to help these women. But by ensuring their murders were caught on tape, perhaps some good can come from this.
What would you have done? Criticizing the photographer on a blog and pimping the post on FR are not exactly heroic acts either, you know.
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