Why are we even having this conversation?

Ah cynicism.

Last week the American Society of Professional Journalists issued a press release calling on reporters in Haiti to “remember their obligation to their trade”. Even NPR – the holy grail of liberalism ran a story calling the actions of different doctors from major networks into question. Their job is to get the story out, don’t you know?

You see, it seems the wayward journalists and network doctors have ah - “blurred the lines” by assisting Haitians who were dying in front of them - rather then just filming and reporting on the deaths happening literally in the moment.

When did the ethics of journalism become more important than the ethics of being a human? When did our need to know become voyeuristic to the extent that we would watch a death rather than save a life?

What if the good Samaritan had been a reporter? It would have been a different parable, I guess.