Journalistic Ethics

[Brenus]

Well, it is a non-subject. Journalist’s ethic (if ever existed) disappeared slowly and continuously from newspapers and other media. We are some who can remember Timisoara “reports” (mass graves), Kuwait “reports” (babies killed in Hospital) and Kosovo “reports” (horse shoes Operation), all stories we know now were deceptions. And I take here only the non-controversial ones.

To put the debate only on the “my country can’t be right” and what to choose between “my Country does wrong” and “telling the Truth will break her heart” is too short.
Patriotism can’t cover-up for murders. That was the excuses of the Nazis in Nuremberg, and now, in all War Crimes.

The appalling comment from the Lt Colonel is one of the worst I never heard. So, does he want to cover-up some criminals under the pretext they are in uniforms? If some who happened to be journalist make the murder public, he understand that others soldiers will not go to recue or help the ones who spoke about it? Did he learn from My Lai?

What put soldiers life in danger is not telling that some of them were murderers… As much as I know, it is the fact that there is a war they fighting in. My Grand-father didn’t killed Germans because they were Germans, but because they were occupying France. He didn’t wait them to commit war crimes (which they started quite early, I give you that) to blow-up their trains and sabotaging what he could (not only him and alone).
It can aggravate the hatred and resentment. However, the ones who took weapons did it before.

Some can even argue that to cover-up murders will reinforce the enemies as the feeling of injustice towards the impunity of the occupiers…
I do remember my feeling when some pilots got away with murder (almost literally) after having killed Italians people, were shipped back to USA and found not guilty, even not man-slaughter after a accident.