I'm so troubled by this....

I once wanted to be a journalist and since I ain't dead yet maybe someday I will pursue this dream. So there is a so called journalistic principle that states something to the effect of, relay but don't touch. In other words report on the news take pictures of the news but please don't involve yourself, thereby fudging the story. Well my view is FUDGE all you want. Rules are meant to be broken.

Case in point, Kevin Cater was a photojournalist who took the now famous photo of a emaciated Sudanese girl who was being stalk by a vulture. *sigh* 

I HATE judging people so I wont do it this time around but i will question this tragedy.Granted he's there to do his job, but what can stop you from attempting to help this child. Surely it cant be journalistic principles it has to be deeper than that. i refuse to believe thats the only thing that can keep one from helping is a set of rules thought up for you. How many times have people broken the law or some regulation or whatever this example here is just a prime example of when to break away from journalistic principles. Journalistic principles shouldn't take away your soul.

There are conflicting stories on whether this man simply walked away from this child after the picture or that he indeed helped afterwards, either way i'm sure that that principle aforementioned has done a lot of damage. I honestly believe it would be better journalism if he had taken a picture of the child receiving help, of him chasing that vulture and even more moving, a  picture of the child graduating from a prestigious university 10 - 20 years down the line. Thats the kind of journalism i wanna see. All this hopelessness ain't journalism at all.

Many have said that perhaps he did not help on account that he would have to help all the other people around him. Well, i think that we can only do as much as we can but if you cant help a dying child standing meters from you then i just have no words. Helping 10 children would have been better than nothing. A thing only becomes impossible if you don't try but trying is the essence of living. people wake up each morning trying, trying to be better trying to improve their lives.

I also think helping others helps the helper as well. It may be crazy to say this but Kevin Carter was said to be going through a lot and the negative statements made about him after his picture won an award drove him to commit suicide. Well i have a theory had he helped this child in the way I stated above it could have saved his soul.It would have given light to his supposed tortured soul. Life is about choices.

Here is a link to a more detailed overview of what actually transpired: Kevin Carter back story