Collateral Murder: Death, Leaks, and Governmentality (Full Video)
In case you’re not one of the 8 million viewers of the above video, allow me to explain. The footage, known online as Collateral Murder is content that was released as part of WikiLeaks. The subtitles of the above video explain what’s going on here pretty well – a group of people, two of which were journalists working for Reuters as well as two children and medical personnel responding to the scene, were gunned down by U.S. military helicopters as their cameras were “mistaken” for AK-47′s. Because when was the last time you saw a DSLR with a banana clip? Or a Canon that doubled as a cannon?
As a writer myself who contributes news bits to the music industry, and who grew up in the D.C. area well aware of how the government likes to target journalists since their word is quite powerful, the above video is just extremely bothersome. I mean, it should bother anyone who isn’t even a writer as it depicts the loss of innocent lives.
