One other thing about the journalists ransom fund. It could manifest in the form of insurance. Like the ships used for ransom off Somalia. Possibly Lloyd's of London (click here). I think the journalism business uses the words, "It comes with the territory." as a defense for what goes on.
The real cure for such dangerous tasks is to not pay for the story in the first place as potentially tainted by false beliefs such as purported by John McCain.
It is no different than when Hetherington and Hondros died in Libya. It was completely misguided for any professional journalist to believe without being embedded with sufficient military presence they would survive the day. Computers are remarkable in recording 'on the street' authenticity, but, they don't protect those that believe they are bringing the story to the viewer or reader.
A nomination or winner of an award is not all that. Making a living means living through it, not being memorialized for the effort.
April 21, 2011
The real cure for such dangerous tasks is to not pay for the story in the first place as potentially tainted by false beliefs such as purported by John McCain.
It is no different than when Hetherington and Hondros died in Libya. It was completely misguided for any professional journalist to believe without being embedded with sufficient military presence they would survive the day. Computers are remarkable in recording 'on the street' authenticity, but, they don't protect those that believe they are bringing the story to the viewer or reader.
A nomination or winner of an award is not all that. Making a living means living through it, not being memorialized for the effort.
April 21, 2011
An Oscar-nominated war-film director (click here) and a second prize-winning photojournalist died covering a battle between rebels and Libyan government forces in the western city of Misrata on Wednesday.
Two other Western photographers apparently working alongside them were wounded.
British-born Tim Hetherington, co-director of the 2010 documentary "Restrepo" about U.S. soldiers on an outpost in Afghanistan, was killed, said his U.S.-based publicist, Johanna Ramos Boyer.
Chris Hondros, a New York-based photographer for Getty Images, died later Wednesday after suffering a serious head wound, according to Getty's director of photography, Pancho Bernasconi....
They too, should not have done it.
They too, should not have done it.
