Every day, the correspondents’ club describes how the same current event is illustrated in two countries.
The death of the French journalist Arman Soldin, Tuesday, May 9 in Ukraine, recalls the dangers faced by reporters on the spot. If the Japanese journalists keep their distance from the field of war, the Americans mobilize significant budgets.
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In Japan, the government gives strict instructions so that journalists do not go to Ukraine given the danger. And, even if they have the choice, the big media do not send their teams to the front and prefer to use information from press agencies like AFP, where Arman Soldin. Some independent journalists who decide on their own initiative to cover a war do so at their own risk.
On the contrary, the United States stands out for the means deployed to send reporters to the fields of war. The US government does not officially pay ransoms, so the safety of journalists remains the priority of their employers. The teams are accompanied by a security officer, and sometimes by a doctor. At the same time, Hollywood seized on the figure of the war reporter in the 1980s with films like Salvador by Oliver Stone or Under Fire with Nick Nolte.
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