Friday, May 09, 2008

How Is Reuters Getting This Photo?


How is Reuters managing to get photos of Hizbullah terrorists in action? Are they embedded?

It also begs the question of Reuters reporters and photographers being in the line of fire. A journalist could find themselves dead if they're that close to terrorists who are rampaging through the city engaging in firefights all over the place. Journalism in a war zone is dangerous business, and one has to call into question the wisdom of working in such close proximity to Hizbullah terrorists, especially with the death of a Reuters photographer in Gaza just a few weeks ago under circumstances that still aren't entirely clear.

As Michael Totten pointed out in his experiences with Hizbullah in Lebanon, Hizbullah controls the media in areas they operate in, which means that the photographer quite likely needed and received permission to take those photos. They watch every move made in areas they control. If they didn't want the photographs taken, they would have likely put a stop to it.

UPDATE:
Brian at Snapped Shot weighs in both with a comment here, and at his blog. Definitely worth a read.

UPDATE:
AP seems to have a similar embed working for it in Gaza, as it caught a terrorist firing off mortars towards Israel. One mortar slammed into Israel, killing an Israeli and wounded several others:
A 48-year-old Israeli man was killed late Friday afternoon when four mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Kibbutz Kfar Aza in the western Negev. The victim has been identified as father of four Jimmy Kedushim, a resident of the kibbutz. He was killed in the front yard of his house.

Three others were wounded in the attack, one moderately and two lightly. Magen David Adom teams at the kibbutz treated a number of people for shock, Israel Radio reported.

A number of buildings in the kibbutz were damaged in the barrage.
. (HT: Ben Hur at LGF)

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