scary news coming out of Libya!?! Photojournalists killed

we promote democracy upon others, we expect others to fight and die for democracy, we rail against undemocratic regimes yet if we aren't there to witness and report on this, then how can democracy exist ?

photographers have died and I am truly saddened by this news and although I never met them, I have friends and colleagues who continue to follow the same path. documenting their struggle for change is, imho, honouring those who die for what we in the west, take for granted.
 
This is a very sad news. In my photo-club we recently saw "War Photographer" and the general comment, or feeling was that so many similar terrible facts are now happening not so far from where we live. And the photo we see on newspapers are made by men who risk their lives. Very sad.
robert
PS I do not know if we need or not to see more pictures, but I ask myself if we can ignore what is happening? Not sure what to answer...
 
Sad news indeed. I have a neighbor who is/was an Emmy winning videographer for the national news here in the US and he used to go to all the hot spots, seemingly without any real trepidation. Like the people involved in this tragedy he simply loved what he was doing.

RIP and best wishes to those still with us for a full recovery.
 
newsgrunt said:
we promote democracy upon others, we expect others to fight and die for democracy, we rail against undemocratic regimes yet if we aren't there to witness and report on this, then how can democracy exist ?

photographers have died and I am truly saddened by this news and although I never met them, I have friends and colleagues who continue to follow the same path. documenting their struggle for change is, imho, honouring those who die for what we in the west, take for granted.
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Amen to that.
 
Tragic news indeed. I hope this movie that's coming out about the South African apartheid photogs doesn't treat the subject with the usual gung ho 'cowboys with cameras' hollywood attitude.
 
What is scary about being a journalist or foreign in these countries were people are rising up against their government is that it is popular to be targeted. It is not because they are afraid of people documenting anything. What they are doing is trying to prove that the country is unstable without the government status-quo in place.

In Egypt the citizens were hiding anyone that did not straight up appear Egyptian, in their houses etc. The citizen blockades would not allow them out. It was all because of the reason that undercover police were trying to kill them. (One of my best friends was there during all of this, he was not allowed to leave the house)

This is pretty different from Africa were there are many accounts of people killing for the camera in genocides etc.

I think it is a shame they were killed just as much as everyone there being killed. War sucks and only benefits a few.
 
A sad event for all involved. I have great respect for those who put themselves in harm's way to document important events.
 
A war zone can have casualties. It is always very sad to have a human die.
All humans are equally important, in my opinion, and whether someone is well known or just some unknown child in some Libyan street, they all deserve to live and live well. Maybe the outrage over a journalist's death has to do with the fact that he did not have to be there, but he chose to be there. Either way, it is a very sad event. We hear of hundeds of such sad events in Libya. People die in the streets.

This is life.
 
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