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.
Prayers their souls find peace and the murders souls NEVER find peace.
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?”
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.
Throwing his camera wouldn’t have done much. He was fairly brave for covering this as they could have killed him for recording it had they decided.
Next line of inquiry is whether the photog is a Taliban sympathizer.
yes we will punish all those who disobey sharia law after my inauguration...I may beat the dhimmis myself with this stick....
“journalistic ethics” is a contradiction in terms.
Whenever I hear of this it sickens me. OTOH, if any journalist were to interfere it would be open season on journalists and none would ever be allowed the access needed to show the world the true nature of our enemy. I couldn’t be a journalist.
If it bleeds, it leads... barf
The question came up, if you were with the NVA and they had planned an ambush on American troops would you warn the soldiers.
I think it was Peter Jennings who first said he probably would. After being castigated for his view, he apologized for his view.
So let’s see, you could throw your camera at them. Or, if you’re as fast as the Flash AND you have the authority of a Marine commander, you could maybe go get the Marines (do you have any idea exactly how far away they were?). Wait, wait, you can can threaten to use that handy-dandy suitcase nuke you just happened to pick up on the black market. Or he could have thrown himself in front of the bullets in hopes the Taliban killers would have been so impressed they would have spared the women.
Those are the best ideas I can come up with. I can’t believe he didn’t try any of them.
"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?