(Again, Pictures will be up MONDAY, when I manage to get fast enough internet access at school.)
Recently I hear Journalists are being criticized for being too involved with disaster victims in Haiti. Calls that objective reporters can't get involved have occured in many disaster areas.
Such Critizism is insensitive and nonsensical. If a journalist is a doctor and someone needs help, who is the journalist, the victim, or the viewer to deny such help to preserve 'objectivity'? It's not like CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta stopped in the middle of a live broadcast to save people either. He helped people off-duty. A reporter does not forfeit his humanity when he takes the job too. As CBC News says, "What the journalist is experiencing is unfathomable to most Americans. Hearing the cries of dying Haitians under piles of rubble would drive anyone — journalist or not — to at least try to help them."
Additionally, footage of reporters helping people reinforces the good attempted by rescue operations. TAKE THAT, FRANCE!!!
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