Dirty Wars
8:53 AM
“Dirty Wars,” is a documentary that follows war correspondent
Jeremy Scahill that has sparked controversy surrounding secret operations in
Middle Eastern countries. After seeing the film, I believe that Scahill shows,
through his film, the core journalism principals of verification, duty to the
public and honesty in his reporting.
Any journalist in a foreign country will deal with the
struggle of digging up the truth beneath all the lies some so willingly tell.
In his quest for journalistic truth, Scahill runs into many obstacles including
lying sources, misleading press releases, and restricted access to government
officials. Scahill overcame all of these by going straight to the source and
getting many different accounts of the same event, many times along with video
or photo proof. Risking his life in the process, he ventured into territory no
other journalist attempted and therefore discovered a story no one knew was
there.
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