This is where strict adherence to impassive reporting utterly fails. It is deeply strange and unsettling to watch. Journalists should be aware of how their very presence can frame or even change what they are reporting on. Following and pointing from a large safe boat? Really?
Arguably, this sort of oddly detached reporting actually helps to dehumanise people who are fleeing desperate situations - it plays into the very goal of far right rabble-rousers and associated media. As a profession, we should do better.
Also, the thinly-veiled glee at finding the boat. "Often you can spot them from the life jackets". It comes off like he's talking about plumage.
Should add: I have made many many mistakes as a journalist - with framing, with protecting dignity. They were mostly made, mercifully, pre-Twitter. It's not about the individual journalist as much as it's about a root and branch reform, a rethink, of what we do and how we do it.
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Al Jazeera's @YoumnaElSayed17 live on air from Gaza as an Israeli missile hits what appears to be a high-rise residential/office tower. Her reporting has been outstanding today.
Per AP: "The 14-story Palestine Tower is home to dozens of families."
Per Al Jazeera: Media offices also located in building.
A claim that BBC deliberately edited out the booing of Boris Johnson yesterday is gaining massive traction. To debunk: there is nothing sinister going on. They're replaying the earlier footage with the natural sound dipped so as not to drown out the live interview. That's it.
As someone who's worked at a news channel, I can confirm it's standard practice. The overlaid footage is known as b-roll or cover and the nat sound on it is always dipped when interviews are being conducted.
There are of course many fair criticisms that can be made of the wider British media's coverage of the jubilee in general. This isn't one of them.
The situation in Ethiopia is the most pressing disaster in the world right now. In recent days, it has finally gotten more attention and made a splash in CNN and the NY Times.
But it needs more.
The conflict in Tigray has been going on since Nov, thousands have been killed, hundreds of thousands forced from their homes and the UN says 2 million people are in need of food aid. Rights groups have reported extra-judicial executions, rapes, looting. reports.unocha.org/en/country/eth…
Per AP, Feb 10: Reports of people already starving to death might just be a handful, but “after a month it will be in the thousands,” warned Ethiopian Red Cross president Ato Abera Tola. After two months, he said, it will be tens of thousands. apnews.com/article/ethiop…
It's always frustrating to see images go viral with no credit to the incredible photographers who take them. And it's happening with the National Guard at Capitol pics. So this remarkable image was captured by the AP's J. Scott Applewhite.