mardek1995 200 Posted August 27, 2015 Posted August 27, 2015 Being a journalist can mean risking being assaulted, raped, or even killed and it's not just the war correspondents or anyone else from NBC, ABC, or CBS News that goes into Syria to report on the ISIS regime or any other warzone. Even domestically being a journalist can have some unexpected dangerous events and consequences. William Biggart died in 9/11 when the WTC collapsed and Robert Stevens, the photo editor from a tabloid paper called The Sun, was the first to die from anthrax. More recently, KCEN meterologist, Patrick Crawford, was shot by some dude who didn't even bother to have a conversation before shooting at him (which made the situation even worse), (as if them repeatedly being robbery targets in the recent years weren't enough), and now Alison Parker and Adam Ward from WDBJ were shot and killed by Vester Flanagan (who happened to work at and get fired from said station, KMID, and KPIX) before committing suicide. It's a side most viewers don't realize until its too late and there are areas where and times when being a reporter can carry a great risk. I just had to get this important message out there in light of the WDBJ shooting among other incidents where journalists were the targets.
WestleyWolf 123 Posted August 27, 2015 Posted August 27, 2015 Being a journalist can mean risking being assaulted, raped, or even killed and it's not just the war correspondents or anyone else from NBC, ABC, or CBS News that goes into Syria to report on the ISIS regime or any other warzone. Even domestically being a journalist can have some unexpected dangerous events and consequences. William Biggart died in 9/11 when the WTC collapsed and Robert Stevens, the photo editor from a tabloid paper called The Sun, was the first to die from anthrax. More recently, KCEN meterologist, Patrick Crawford, was shot by some dude who didn't even bother to have a conversation before shooting at him (which made the situation even worse), (as if them repeatedly being robbery targets in the recent years weren't enough), and now Alison Parker and Adam Ward from WDBJ were shot and killed by Vester Flanagan (who happened to work at and get fired from said station, KMID, and KPIX) before committing suicide. It's a side most viewers don't realize until its too late and there are areas where and times when being a reporter can carry a great risk. I just had to get this important message out there in light of the WDBJ shooting among other incidents where journalists were the targets. so your saying that this has happened multiple times and that the WDBJ shooting is one of the worse to ever happen in news history?
TheRolyPoly 2659 Posted August 27, 2015 Posted August 27, 2015 so your saying that this has happened multiple times and that the WDBJ shooting is one of the worse to ever happen in news history? IMO, the WDBJ shooting is the worst one because it was captured LIVE on TV, plus the suspect caught it on his cell phone.
ns8401 968 Posted August 27, 2015 Posted August 27, 2015 Being a journalist can mean risking being assaulted, raped, or even killed and it's not just the war correspondents or anyone else from NBC, ABC, or CBS News that goes into Syria to report on the ISIS regime or any other warzone. Even domestically being a journalist can have some unexpected dangerous events and consequences. William Biggart died in 9/11 when the WTC collapsed and Robert Stevens, the photo editor from a tabloid paper called The Sun, was the first to die from anthrax. More recently, KCEN meterologist, Patrick Crawford, was shot by some dude who didn't even bother to have a conversation before shooting at him (which made the situation even worse), (as if them repeatedly being robbery targets in the recent years weren't enough), and now Alison Parker and Adam Ward from WDBJ were shot and killed by Vester Flanagan (who happened to work at and get fired from said station, KMID, and KPIX) before committing suicide. It's a side most viewers don't realize until its too late and there are areas where and times when being a reporter can carry a great risk. I just had to get this important message out there in light of the WDBJ shooting among other incidents where journalists were the targets. You realize how many uneventful live shots at 3-5 stations per market or more times 15 or more live shots times 210 markets happen every day without a hitch right? Of course there's a risk... There's a risk in getting out of bed. But the driving of the truck down the road and crashing and getting hurt that way is probably a greater risk, a much greater risk. These things are so unbelievably rare. It's similar to getting hit by lightning and winning the powerball afterwords...
GoldenShine9 1515 Posted August 27, 2015 Posted August 27, 2015 The last similar incident involving local news in "peace" zones I can think of was in 1995 in Canada, where a sports anchor at a station in Ottawa was murdered at the studio.
T.L. Hughes 907 Posted August 27, 2015 Posted August 27, 2015 This article from TVSpy summarizes the feelings of vulnerability that some reporters have in doing live reports from the field.
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