If It Bleeds, It Leads

3 February 2010 | 9:54 AM

Many times, we hear stories of journalist who are willing to put themselves on the line, going to the most hostile environments to bring us the story. While I’ve got a certain amount of admiration for that, that sort of thing doesn’t even come close to the amount of cajones, grit and abject stupidity shown by Ryan Duffy from VICE, an independent online-news collective. Sure, your Murrows, Cronkites and the like might’ve broadcast from war-zones and rooftops during bombing raids, but have any of them ever willingly asked to be shot at point blank range? That’s right, that just happened:

The story is actually really compelling, one of those things of reality that makes you think all those dystopian visions of the future are all-too-real and all-too-present. But it’s hard to even concentrate on the content of the piece. I mean, seriously? Dude just asked to be shot. In Bogota. By a tailor. That shit’s just not right.

Posted by Andy in Words Fail Me