Should reporters help the people they are covering?

The article talks about what do reporters do when they report things like war are starvation in other countries. Do they help the people in need or do they just do their job and report the story? This article gives different ideas on what is going on throughout the world.

At the end of this article, there are several student questions that you can use while teaching. E.g. Should journalists every help the people they are reporting on? Would you want to be a journalist or a war reporter? Why would you help the people you are reporting.

This is a good article for students to think about and talk about because it is something happening every single day. I think it puts the students' morals in perspective and allows them to put themselves in the reporters' shoes to think about what they might do in the situation. It would also be a fantastic way to talk about and bring up the point of who is telling history.

A strategy that I may use to teach this is bringing it up in a history class. Talking about the wars of the past and relating to wars happening now and possible wars in the future. Bringing in the articles written by journalists or reporters would help them get a different viewpoint and be able to connect in a different way.