Posts Tagged ‘Collateral Murder’

Upon Further Review: Collateral Murder?

By Jamie McIntyre on Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Upon Further Review: Collateral Murder?

If the Reuters photographer was shooting the war from the insurgents’ perspective, he was taking his life in his hands, and he paid dearly for it. Read the investigation, before condemning this as an act of “collateral murder.”

When Context is Collateral Damage

By Jamie McIntyre on Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

When Context is Collateral Damage

Mistakes in war (and in journalism for that matter) are often made because someone becomes convinced early on of one explanation for events, and then disregards all evidence to the contrary. Sometimes they don’t see the alternate possibilities right in front of them because they are so fixated on their initial perception of reality.