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.
(Excerpt) Read more at patriotroom.com ...
"AP photographer" now clearly means members of the Taliban itself, working "for" the AP, and often using the AP as cover to gather intelligence against US and allied troops to attack them later.
So what's new?
Unless that is independently confirmed somewhere, I refuse to believe it.
It's a cute "progressive" myth though.
Cool, now the BBC can do a docudrama on all those radical Christians who execute women.
Well obviously it wasn’t just that single thing and no one kills themselves who doesn’t already have some issues, but supposedly the criticism he received for the photo and the fact that he felt like he should have done more drove him over the edge. But here’s his suicide note, interpret it how you will.
“I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky.”
It is not disinterested journalistic “professionalism.” AP, along with the rest of MSM is actively partisan in these matters.They are on the other side.
Yeah, that's it......suicide.
Run along, now. Nothing to see here. Just a desert mirage. Crusader agitprop.
Agitprop.
The Taliban are defenders of the people, the faith.
Uh huh.
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What a great idea! All he needed to do was pull out his cell phone, dial 1-800-SEMPER-FI and call in an air strike. The Marines would've responded in seconds and those women would be alive today.
Yeah, it couldn't have been any more difficult than ordering a pizza from Dominos, could it?
1. Journalist do not accept the same risk as active military personnel involved in combat. The reason? Military people are engaging the enemy in active fashion and have to take risks far higher in direct exposure to hostile fire. Journalists, OTOH, if at the direct front, for the most part monitor action from cover. Occasionally some do take the same risks (i.e., riding in a Hummer) but on the whole act as passive observers from the relative luxury of cover not possible for men in assault situations.
2. Journalists often act to aid the enemy and to hinder or subvert the advantages of our military. We all can remember the slimebag that shot video of the Marine that shot the Taliban creep that presented a possible threat even though he was down and wounded. Marine ruling - justified. The videographer deliberately filmed the Marine and used the film to smear the Marines and the military in general. Secondly, there have been numerous ‘journalists’ that gleefully sought out and aired film, interviews and combat documentation with our nation's enemies in this war and others. Let's not forget Mike Wallace and his hypocritical stance that he wouldn't interfere with a Viet Cong ambush of American soldiers if he could get the scoop. Many other scumbag MSM types have done just that in this war.
3. Complete agreement on the pity of the untimely deaths of numerous, genuine, AMERICANS involved in the journalistic trade. They will be missed. Guys like Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, Walter Cronkite and others will not. In fact, their demise (careerwise and in body) is reason to be heartened that one more enemy of freedom no longer needs to be contended with.
If a reporter whose presence was accepted by the enemy was forwarding his reports through the U.S. military so they could ensure that they were not not being used for enemy propaganda, I would see no particular reason why the reporter should feel a need to jeopardize his position by relaying information in such fashion as to get himself ejected or killed. Bolting from one's post to try to save a particular batch of troops might seem like a noble thing, but in the long run it may be better to hope the enemy allows the publication of information that is more harmful to them than they realize.
BTW, I would suggest that deciding to bolt could be not only dangerous but futile as well if the 'ambush' was in fact a setup to test the reporter.
“Criticizing the photographer on a blog and pimping the post on FR are not exactly heroic acts either, you know”
Look up the keyword fauxtography and get back to me on that one, will you? Also check rathergate sometime...
I posted the link to that discussion (including video clips at link) above.
What’s your point? Would would you have the photographer do? Don his Iron Man costumer and fight the bad guys?
There are enough reasons to get outraged at AP and the MSM. This is not one of them.
I hope he wakes up screaming every night with that image in his head, for the rest of his life.
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