I was reading a post by Dave Powell on his post: https://plus.google.com/101793532287583914396/posts/2zniQYoJT8r
I was reading a post by Dave Powell on his post: https://plus.google.com/101793532287583914396/posts/2zniQYoJT8r
The quote he found on Twitter reads: 'If you could save a drowning man or win Pulitzer prize for taking a photo of drowning man, which camera and film would you use?'
I couldn't help but think of the attached video when I read that post. Remember the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when some of the news agencies were criticizing CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 for getting too involved with helping people when his team could of instead just stayed to the sidelines and reporting what they witnessed? I think we should all get involved when we're called upon by circumstance to intervene.
Call it a hero complex or whatever you will, but I can't sit by and not interfere when I think there needs to be action. That means if someone's being overly physical with their dog, child, S.O. or if someone or something is in distress.
Don't get me wrong, I don't go out of my way to find these situations, but as my longtime friends know, I intervene much more than I see others who could. Not nearly as much as firefighters, the police or paramedics do, however.
I should write a blog post about this as I was raised in a "everyone for himself" culture and yet it wasn't until the military that my dormant, yet dominant, instinct to help was awakened.
Anywho, I digress. Enjoy the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpT62K515_k
The quote he found on Twitter reads: 'If you could save a drowning man or win Pulitzer prize for taking a photo of drowning man, which camera and film would you use?'
I couldn't help but think of the attached video when I read that post. Remember the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when some of the news agencies were criticizing CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 for getting too involved with helping people when his team could of instead just stayed to the sidelines and reporting what they witnessed? I think we should all get involved when we're called upon by circumstance to intervene.
Call it a hero complex or whatever you will, but I can't sit by and not interfere when I think there needs to be action. That means if someone's being overly physical with their dog, child, S.O. or if someone or something is in distress.
Don't get me wrong, I don't go out of my way to find these situations, but as my longtime friends know, I intervene much more than I see others who could. Not nearly as much as firefighters, the police or paramedics do, however.
I should write a blog post about this as I was raised in a "everyone for himself" culture and yet it wasn't until the military that my dormant, yet dominant, instinct to help was awakened.
Anywho, I digress. Enjoy the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpT62K515_k
Comments
News teams must document... They are our historical logs for the future. They are our news that we rely upon.
In that particular scenario - the photographer could have been killed... and the child killed as well.
The terrorist was killing - period.
She documented that girl - and gave her death meaning - instead of just being another body strewn across the rubble of war or fighting.
The girl - knew she could not be helped she did not scream out - but she also knew that the photographer saw what was happening... and the photographer documented it.
A way of preserving history.
Very sad... the story itself... because there is NO RIGHT --- NO WRONG...
Either way you go - would be wrong.
As to her heart - you saw it break... (at least the actress portrayed it as such).
To me - this was a well done film piece... very poignant - and sad.
But we - as a society want news - we want what is happening documented. She was in a place where things like that happen all the time... Human life - becomes nothing at some point - you become cold... Look around at the fighting you saw --- the death around --- she was documenting it - not getting involved in it.... But this one piece - caused her to become emotionally involved.
Unlike the other strewn about bodies...
So - yes - the story was good.
Sad - and human.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/101793532287583914396/posts/eAWveCjkWr9
has sparked a bit of a controversial comment section... LOLs
Thus script writers, authors, journalists - all write to cause a reaction... This movie is no different...