Sunday, February 27, 2011

Journalism response.

The "cowboys with cameras" who report conflict journalism, fulfill an important, while simultaneously irrelevant, role in our modern society. Journalism's job is to inform the people and for the people to be informed, they must pay attention. The fact that came up again and again and again in "Dying To Tell A Story" was that it seems that the public does not pay that close attention to these journalists. They seem to be widely ignored by the masses. Despite this they do the honorable thing and risk their lives every day. These journalists spend their lives being shot at and blown up, all to take a picture of a cadaver or a sick man, or a girl with no limbs. They do this in the hope that it will scare us into the belief that this particular war is worse than the other wars going on at the same, and something should be done about it. Sadly there are hundreds of war-zones and thousands of these reporters buzzing like noble carrion flies who bring their rotting meat back to a full queen that tries as hard as she can to ignore the meat. It seems futile. It seems useless.

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