Friday, June 7, 2013
Dying to Tell the Story Essay
Dying to Tell the Story Essay
After seeing the
video, my view of the function of journalism in the world has changed in
various. I now know dome of the hardships that these photojournalists have to
go through just to capture one picture. I never knew that journalists died
while photographing wars. These photojournalists job is as important as someone
fighting in a war. In a way journalists/photojournalists who work in conflict
zones and report for news agencies are crazy for risking their lives but they
do it for a very good cause. They perform an important service for us all. If
they didn’t go out & do what they do we would mostly likely not know what’s
going on in the rest of the world.
To be a reporter
or a photojournalist I think you would have to have some very tough traits. You
would probably have to learn how to hold your emotions back just to capture
that moment, how to keep a straight face, and what is appropriate to photograph
without invading someone’s privacy. Photojournalists and journalists are some
of the bravest people besides the people who actually go out and fight in these
wars. These people must have gone through very good training for their job because
the take pictures of things that would make most people cry or throw up. For
example, Margaret Bourke-White took pictures of the Holocaust after the Nazi’s
left, although she did not die from her photographs. The holocaust is one of
the most known wars and the things the Nazi’s did to the people at the camps
were horrifying. There were massive gravesites that they left behind and just
bodies laying on top of each other. If a person off the streets had come in
those camps they would have had a reaction like no other. A
photojournalist/journalist job may look easy but in reality there job
sometimes-mean life or death.
In kindergarten I
fell off the swing, broke my arm, and had to go to the hospital. I was scared
that I might die or that my arm would have to be amputated. The feeling of
breaking my arm is nothing compared to the feeling the
photojournalists/journalists feel when they go into a war zone. I can imagine
that they have butterflies in their stomach, or are scared of what might happen
but I might not ever know what their real feeling is like. In a journalists
mind they have to constantly wonder if they are going to make it another day in
the war zone. “ There’s no way you could hide behind the camera because you’re
looking through it . . . In a way you feel close to people your filming” said
Don McCullen. Even though photojournalists fear for their lives thy mange to
still to there job done.
In the year of
2010, there were 44 journalists killed while covering dangerous
situations. Thirty-one more deaths took
place that may have been connected. Since the year 1992 there has 151
journalists killed in Iraq, 24 in Afghanistan, 51 in Pakistan, and 70 in Egypt.
On the website I found this information on it really doesn’t say how these
journalists died, but it does say that some of the motives of these crimes
aren’t confirmed.
Essay
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading
newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a
clock”
Ben Hecht (1893-1964)
The
quote “trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers
is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.” most
likely means that keeping up with things happening in the world by reading
newspapers wont keep you updated about everything. A newspaper can also be
adding false information into their articles. For example, like the guy from
the Shattered Glass movie, he created many false documents and stories and got
away with it for a very long time. Newspapers also can be opinionated at times.
This quote can be
agreed with for many reasons. First, this quote can be agreed with because when
reading a newspaper you never get everything that’s going on worldwide. A
newspaper can only give but so much information about the world. For example,
when you read about a hurricane or any natural disaster you only hear so much
about it. Sometimes when a natural disaster happens newspapers talked about it
for about a couple days and update you about it if anything more happens. Also,
newspapers can’t cover everything if so a newspaper would be as big as a book.
Another reason why
this quote can be agreed with is because not everything you read is true.
Sometimes you can fund out way more about what’s happening worldwide form
newscasts, but sometimes even those aren’t true. In most cases, people find out
there own information from people they know who live in those areas or from
radio shows. Radio shows provide a lot of good information as well. In modern
day there are apps that you can download on your cellular device that help you
listen to radio stations all over the world. Not only do these radio stations
play music, but they also talk about what’s going on in that state or city.
As you can see,
the quote “trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading
newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a
clock.” means many things.
Prezi On Margaret Bourke-White
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This is a prezi about Margaret Bourke-White who waas an photographer during some of the major wars of the 19th century.
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This is a prezi about Margaret Bourke-White who waas an photographer during some of the major wars of the 19th century.
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