cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/40655145

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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

– John Abernathy

  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    8814·
    16 hours ago

    Fuck that’s a great pic.

    We all love to shit on journalists because most of the time they deserve it, but some of them are honestly doing heroic work and are fundamental in times like these.

    And it’s also a great case for why photographers have not been made obsolete by AI, but quite literally the opposite.

    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
      76·
      15 hours ago

      There’s a reason the press is often referred to as “the fourth branch of government”. Journalists that do their job properly are absolutely critical to the proper functioning of a democracy.

    • Bobby Turkalino@sh.itjust.works
      922·
      15 hours ago

      Photographers and journalists are two separate groups though. Photographers are the admirable ones for collecting facts and putting themselves in actual danger.

      Journalists, however, oftentimes take these facts and spin them for ad revenue, political gain, or their own career advancement

      • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        5 hours ago

        I do photography but not really for journalistic documentation, journalists can use photography to do journalism but photography isn’t inherently journalism. Some journalists are more biased than others but they’re all journalists.

        • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          5 minutes ago

          I wouldn’t say Fox News hosts are journalists, even though they love to pretend they are. I think they even successfully argued in court that it’s an entertainment program so it shouldn’t be held to proper ethical standards, yet their audience doesn’t take it that way.

        • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
          96·
          12 hours ago

          All journalists are propagandists due to the nature of journalism. The decision, conscious or due to ideological alignment, on what facts to emphasize determines the narrative a journalist is promoting.

          Last time the US president surprised the press by invading a country without warning, Panama, the first question asked was “were any US soldiers injured”. This doesn’t require any lies, but it did more to influence the way Americans thought about the surprise war than any lie they could have promoted.