[StJacques]

". . . he worked for Indymedia.org, an independent Web-based media organization."

Allow me to edit that if I may ...

". . . he worked for Indymedia.org, an independent  leftist Web-based media organization."

[wardaddy]

Very few media orgs are not liberal

You’d be hard pressed not to find a media person not sympathetic to APPO in Oaxaca

just saying

And he could have just been a picture taker being paid for good shots rather than an ideologue

No reason to celebrate his death

I’ve known a number of war zone free lance camera shooters

Most were adrenaline junkies and in it for the big score of a great shot