Posted on 12/26/2013 9:53:51 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Among the roughly 300 killed during intense fighting in Aleppo was Molhem Barakat, a Reuters photographer. Barakat's death last Friday, in the indiscriminate barrage on Aleppo that the White House criticized Monday, has raised serious questions about Reuters' hiring practice.
Hannah Lucinda Smith, a British freelance photojournalist and acquaintance of Barakat, writes that Barakat tried to join Al Qaeda.
According to Smith, Barakat wanted to join the terrorist organization for the 11,000 Syrian lira monthly salary. "It is a pitiful wage for a potential suicide bomber, but enough to tempt an eighteen-year-old stuck in a war zone with no job."
Barakat reportedly told Smith the terrorist group probably wouldn't accept him, saying "I'm too liberal. But maybe they’ll think I’ll be useful to them, because I can still go into regime areas so I could transport weapons there for them.”
Barakat was roughly 17 when he started working for Reuters in battle zones, according to an Honest Reporting article on Monday. His age was not included in the Reuters report of his death.
Smith wrote that she had refused Barakat's requests to work with her, because she "didn’t want the responsibility of an eager seventeen year old with no war zone training and little experience on my shoulders."
After being hired by Reuters, Barakat was apparently not given any safety gear or training. He was also reportedly paid $100 a day for entering war zones to document for the London-based news agency, which has yet to respond to the revelations.
This isn't the first time Reuters has made questionable judgements. In 2010, the agency apparently cropped photos from the Mavi Marmara flotilla incident to favor the terrorist attackers over the IDF. In 2006, a Reuters cameraman was arrested for encouraging and directing rock attacks on Israelis.
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Bad career direction choice gone worse.
“What’s 11,000 Iraqi Lira in US currency?”
Not very good because Iraq uses Dinars and not Lira. 11,000 dinar is about $10 US.
Turkey uses the Lira
“It is a pitiful wage for a potential suicide bomber, but enough to tempt an eighteen-year-old stuck in a war.”
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So he got ten times that working for Reuters, every time he went into a combat zone without a helmet or flack jacket. Talk about exploitation.
He wanted to join the terrorists and they killed him? good.
Not only that, they offered him a lousy salary, so instead he went to work for Reuters.
Hopefully somebody had the decency to place stuffed toy near his body before taking pictures.
Manufactured poignancy adds to the marketability of the shot.
>>“Barakat”
Well, that’s an interesting name.<<
It is also called “Chemin Fer de.”
They forgot. Can they crop it in?
Guess the interview process blew up in his face....
Sad. There are plenty of resources these days to counsel on getting that next job.
I wonder how many sympathetic refugee/victim/slain Muslim Child pictures/vides he is responsible for?
Sure. He shouldn’t have listened to the Reuters guy who said, “Hey, kid! I’ll give ya a hundred American if you go over there and take a picture!” and then punched his friend’s shoulder and said, “he’s doin’ it! How much ya wanna bet he doesn’t get his head blown off?” and had another beer.
That they leave to the pros. Wouldn’t want them getting hurt.
The real story here is the continued killing of known kooks.
REUTERS is made of of leftists frauds who support terrorism. These frauds ban you if you get in their face and tell them they suck.
Just a normal Journ_O_lister then
Photojournalists claim to be neutral observers but many are aware that they serve to propagandize events and persons.
Those who knowingly deceive on behalf of evil may get what they deserve in the end.
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