AchtungBono
Refugee
So many times you see reports on TV from war zones and you look at the footage and wonder: how the hell can those journalists just sit back and do nothing while a crime is being committed right before their eyes??
Case in point, last year in Iraq an engineer was kidnapped and led into a car at gunpoint right in front of an Australian film crew who asked the man's name. The man had a very sad look on his face and looked at them as if it was the last time he was ever going to see anyone else again. The car with the hooded terrorists sped off and I was left to wonder - WHY didn't the camera crew try to stop the kidnapping? (the man later escaped....) Why didn't they try to fight? How could they just STAND there and let another human being be kidnapped without doing anything?
Another case in point - Reuters news agency has reporters here who cover the news from the West Bank and Gaza. After the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was taken hostage, newsmen from Reuters interviewed hooded Hamas members brandishing their weapons, boasting that they knew where he was being held and that the "zionist enemy" will suffer greatly. While I was watching I was thinking that immediately after that interview, the cameramen should have followed the terrorists and then call the Israeli military commander and informed them of the location of the terrorists - the interrogation of whom would have ultimately led to the whereabouts of the soldier.
Its so frustrating to know that those journalists don't care about anything else but the story. What about the soldier's family??
On the other side of the spectrum, following the tragic death of the family on the beach in Gaza, cameras followed the every move of the poor little girl crying over her father and family. Why couldn't the cameraman have put down his camera and try to comfort this little girl instead of sticking the camera in her face and recording her grief??
Sometimes I really HATE the press.........
Case in point, last year in Iraq an engineer was kidnapped and led into a car at gunpoint right in front of an Australian film crew who asked the man's name. The man had a very sad look on his face and looked at them as if it was the last time he was ever going to see anyone else again. The car with the hooded terrorists sped off and I was left to wonder - WHY didn't the camera crew try to stop the kidnapping? (the man later escaped....) Why didn't they try to fight? How could they just STAND there and let another human being be kidnapped without doing anything?
Another case in point - Reuters news agency has reporters here who cover the news from the West Bank and Gaza. After the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was taken hostage, newsmen from Reuters interviewed hooded Hamas members brandishing their weapons, boasting that they knew where he was being held and that the "zionist enemy" will suffer greatly. While I was watching I was thinking that immediately after that interview, the cameramen should have followed the terrorists and then call the Israeli military commander and informed them of the location of the terrorists - the interrogation of whom would have ultimately led to the whereabouts of the soldier.
Its so frustrating to know that those journalists don't care about anything else but the story. What about the soldier's family??
On the other side of the spectrum, following the tragic death of the family on the beach in Gaza, cameras followed the every move of the poor little girl crying over her father and family. Why couldn't the cameraman have put down his camera and try to comfort this little girl instead of sticking the camera in her face and recording her grief??
Sometimes I really HATE the press.........