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 They Lied. There ALL LIES Poster Rank:302 <--We Did It. So Can You Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 4,210
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Re: Journalists Killed in Action
ya. thanks, iv been meaning to change this, i just forgot.... ill let the mods know im stupid.....
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01-26-2015, 04:36 PM
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 King of East Texas Poster Rank:356 3 legs Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 3,445
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Re: Journalists Killed in Action
Same thing for historians, and people who have simply wanted to document something in history. Mexicans look at me like I'm nuts when I tell them I want to go to Mexico, especially the ones who grew up here in the States. At the same time, I have romanticized the tracking of centuries old documents in my mind for too long to care about dying. One of my professors had death threats to his grandchildren for working on a book. Years of work, for nothing. Finding documents and reporting finds in his work, wow, all those documents in your footnotes don't exist anymore, wow, how can that be. No evidence, no claim. Journalists have it worse, saying I'm a historian and explaining what all I study and I want to find out something, has led me to some places I doubt journalists could. Getting a story, could be an on the moment thing, Where as I would want to see, but as far distance, my job is to report the story in time, not die trying to observe it to tell it now. Telling someone you are with media can be good or bad. Especially in places where ideologies are literally drawn in the sand by a wall or by blood. Getting into someones business in the heat of things can lead to negative consequences, even with someone who might otherwise be their best friend. Being said, I would call anyone going to ISIS land insane, and suggest having a living-funeral, as sailors to the new world sometimes did. Granted there is always far more of one side in any press investigation, I do admire them for doing what they do. I remember a local reporter came to my highschool in November 2000. He had been in the Middle East, but cant remember what event, and was talking about how press had huge letters they made all over their bodies, and Kevlar/helmets reading PRESS. He said that they could go to both sides and talk, but not always, and if caught in the middle, neither side cared much to not take out some foreigner getting in the way of aiming at someone who is aiming at you. |
