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The Common Thread in Media Awards
Its been quite a month for mainstream media self-referential back-slapping.
First, AP gets a Pulitzer Prize for anonymous photos of terrorists committing murder, taken under suspicious circumstances.
Then, Dan Rather and Mary Mapes get a Peabody Award for breaking the Abu Ghraib story (which had really been broken months previously by the US military).
And now, Kevin Sites, who nearly got an innocent Marine charged with murder (for doing the right thing in a war zone), will receive a Payne Award.
For Ethics in Journalism. (Hat tip: Terp Mole.)
NEW YORK Kevin Sites, a freelance photojournalist for NBC, will be awarded the 2005 Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism on May 12 for his decision-making process after he witnessed and taped a U.S. Marine killing an unarmed Iraqi man in a mosque.
Sites decided to share the tape with the military, then he worked with NBC to create a well-nuanced story that aired 48 hours after the incident, according to the Payne announcement. Since he was working as a pool photojournalist at the time, Sites shared the tape with the other news organizations in the pool.
When Sites was criticized after other outlets used the footage, he answered the critics and explained his decisions in detail on his Weblog, www.kevinsites.net.
What do these awards have in common? Theyre all for pictures or stories that damaged the US and gave valuable propaganda to the enemy.
