I watched Civil War yesterday and even though I generally knew what their job is I was surprised that they were actually in the very middle of the fighting, tagging right behind the soldiers and taking pictures. Why does either side of the conflict just lets them be, especially the side that might be ‘in the wrong’, knowing that they would report on their atrocities?
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Some of them *do* get killed. Remember Daniel Pearl, the guy who was beheaded in 2002 and the video of his execution broadcast all over the world? Journalist for the Wall Street Journal, but that’s just the most famous example.
Right now the average media/journalist death rate in Gaza is about two per week.
I have a hose with a sprayer nozzle in a water fight against your a bunch of your 5 year old friends with squirt guns.
Your friends are all wearing the same color shirt and arm band.
You don’t have a squirt gun, but have the same colored shirt but a different colored arm band. You are trying to stay close to your friends.
I don’t try to spray you, but the crazyness of the water fight makes that hard.
One of the big outcries of the Iraq war was two journalists getting killed from an air attack. What is not spoken about is that they were embedded into or tagging along with a group carrying and using weapons. That became the basis of Wikileaks.
They do. [Sky News team attacked in Ukraine](https://youtu.be/wyM_9P4igys?feature=shared) still one of the most terrifying clips.
There was a video I remember seeing a few weeks after Russia started it’s invasion of Ukraine, where a car full of journalists was driving though a checkpoint. “For some reason” the Russians started shooting at them, and if I remember correctly one or two of them were killed, while the video showed three more running away. I think one of the 3 got shot in the leg, so he needed help running.
They aren’t supposed to get shot at or killed, but at the same time, it’s war and there will be innocents killed. There’s also no concrete repercussions for the people that do shoot at them.
Uhm, are you sure you watched the whole movie?
>!Two of the four photojournalists the film follows get killed…!<
[They don’t](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Journalists_killed_while_covering_military_conflicts).
Journalists are unknowingly killed in combat, purposefully killed in combat and often executed extrajudicially.
Former pro photographer here.
Many of them get killed. RIP Tim Heatherington.
I know a guy who shoots for major newspapers, covering the Donetsk and Luhanskt regions of Ukraine. He had has all sorts of trainings on weapons, kidnapping, contingency situations, etc, because journalist safety is not assured.
I know another guy who was covering the drug cartel/police war in Mexico circa 2010s. He was caught in some kind of gunfight between gangs and the police. When it was all done, he laid in a ditch with dead bodies nearby, pretending to be dead for an extended period of time, just so he was sure it would be safe to get up and get out of there.
Israel/IDF deliberately targets journalists. Look up the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
Type “Wikileaks collateral murder” into Youtube to find a coverup of two Reuters journalists being gunned down in cold blood.
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