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Mavroleon is one of the journalists interviewed in Dying to Tell the Story, a documentary exploring what compels war-zone journalists??€”licensed idiots, as one reporter describes himself and colleagues—to risk their lives for the sake of a few pictures. Mavroleon was one of two journalists featured who were killed in action after the film’s completion, but its main protagonist is Dan Eldon, who was stoned to death by a violent Somali mob in 1992. He was 22. The portrait is wrenchingly intimate—the film’s host...
...idea of objective news coverage doesn’t come from authority alone, or from journalists??€™ profound moral superiority over the rest of us. Rather, it comes from accountability and the opportunity for false information to be corrected elsewhere, something lacking in countries without a free press; from the comparison of information from different sources with different interests; from requiring extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims; from providing a forum for criticism and being willing to accept...