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Israel Admits It Bombed A Hospital To Kill A Journalist For Doing Journalism
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this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
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If he was zero involved with doing anything, do we say a journalist has no responsibility to save lives and really only document?
That's exactly what almost all modern countries say. That's why photographers get the Pulitzer when photoing a starving child who is getting watched by a vulture. The photographer chased the vulture away but left the dying child behind to go with his waiting plane.
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It sounds so fucked, but its just reality. Giving the kid food in that moment wont save it anyways, because it wont have a sustained food and water source. You can just decide then and there "I will adopt this kid and stop being a journalist to take care of it" but then there wouldnt be any journalists left in the world very quickly. Its the same with war photographers. Not participating in the conflict is specifically whats necessary to do you job. Without journalists doing their job there would not be a single Palestinian left alive today.
I’m very sure it’s horrible for them to deal with too.
Well said!
The photographer of the vulture picture committed suicide a year after taking it. (4 months after getting the Pulitzer prize)
So yeah its not like these are robots who are completely unaffected by the things they see and document.