http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7751011.stm
In short:
After an inquest on the body of a BBC producer, Kate Peyton, who was shot in Somalia, it was found out that she was unlawfully killed. Kate Peyton, 39, got shot outside a hotel in Mogadishu in February 2005. When coroner Dr. Peter Dean announced the news at Ipswich Crown Court he stated that journalists should not feel pressured into taking dangerous jobs. Peyton’s family said that the BBC and other journalists would learn from this incident and it will improve their safety. The incident provoked a lot of discussion about the BBC taking unacceptable risks.
What does Rene think about this:
After having read the article I think that the BBC has no blame on taking the risks they took. In this article you can definitely see that the BBC was taking risks, but the fact that this story was important to report about and that Kate Peyton said she really wanted to do this, makes it acceptable. You can’t take no risks when you want to report about important issues going on in the world, of course there are many wars, where journalists are in great danger, but the importance of reporters in those places is huge.
2 comments:
I agree with you that it is important to have our journalist in those areas. What I understand from the article is that she was willing to go as well and therefore, I do not think that the BBC made a mistake sending her. I do wonder if a journalist can refuse an assignment like this without losing her/his job?
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I agree with you on this subject. I think every reporter knows the risks they take when they go to countries where the situation is dangerous. If reporters are not sent to areas like these, the world would never know what is going on in those countries, and I find it very important that they do.
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