This is infuriating

[Guest MikeSC]

But for every instance of 'the media' not wanting to get involved and putting somebody in harm's way, there's just as many instances of 'the media' GETTING involved for a good reason. Like the reporter from The Australian, who flew that armless kid out of Baghdad when nobody else cared. Or the dozens of reporters and cameramen who, during the bushfires in Canberra in 2003, put their own lives on the line to help save families and houses.

 

Yes, there is a kind of unwritten law that journalists try and remove themselves from the story, but most members of 'the media' know the difference between right and wrong. Just because these tools didn't isn't proof of a general lack of morals in 'the media'. It's proof of a lack of morals in the three tools that let it happen.

That it is an increasingly widely held view amongst increasingly more prominent journalists (I will, again, mention Mike Wallace here) --- it's a very disturbing trend.

-=Mike