Well, Is It Possible to Make Dangerous Reporting Safe?

Is It Possible to Make Dangerous Reporting Safe? - Hamilton Nolan, Gawker

I pulled this off of a Media Bistro feed. This is something that's been on my mind for the better part of the last two years. We of course want to raise the bar on reporting as we recover from the cheer leading several media companies committed themselves to back in 2001-2003. It's clear we were swindled by the government, and it's clear that media outlets reporting around the world, and those not reporting around the world, beefed up their journalistic enterprise considerably since then. When someone like Ann Coulter suggests that more journalists need to be jailed, we need to consider how far reporting should go, and additionally, relaxing our expectations of how that reporting should be framed. So when Lara Logan gets beaten and sexually assaulted, should we feel like we need to pull back? Or accept that cost and move on?