Objects of 'public curiosity'
One of our people at the UN had the following to say yesterday:
"She said it should be kept in mind that journalists were civilians, and must be protected as such, but journalists should also respect the human dignity of those captured in armed conflict by not making them the object of “public curiosity”.
Hmm, so filming bedraggled POWs with hands on heads is all out, isn it?
(The bod concerned, Jessica Gladstone, shares a name with a Canadian kickboxer with the nom de guerre of 'Thumper'. I am not making this up.)
"She said it should be kept in mind that journalists were civilians, and must be protected as such, but journalists should also respect the human dignity of those captured in armed conflict by not making them the object of “public curiosity”.
Hmm, so filming bedraggled POWs with hands on heads is all out, isn it?
(The bod concerned, Jessica Gladstone, shares a name with a Canadian kickboxer with the nom de guerre of 'Thumper'. I am not making this up.)
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