War journalism should be rooted in empathy — not violence | Bel Trew
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🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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We need journalism that moves beyond a constant focus on violence and honestly depicts the full impact of war, in and out of the trenches, says conflict journalist Bel Trew. She makes a passionate call for war reporting to be rooted in compassion and truth, sharing stories that illuminate the human toll of conflict with the hope of healing our fractured world.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
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| 0:10.0 | where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm your host, Elise Hugh. |
| 0:17.0 | Europe's bloodiest war in generations is still happening in Ukraine, |
| 0:22.0 | and war reporter Bell True has been on the front lines covering this |
| 0:25.2 | conflict. In her 2024 talk she unpacks what's risky to the social fabric about the way |
| 0:30.6 | war is currently covered and why it's so important to change the framework for telling these stories. |
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| 0:59.0 | If you load up my social media feed right now and give it a quick scroll, |
| 1:00.0 | it's like experiencing frighteningly different alternate universes. |
| 1:05.0 | Even if you read out the trolls, the extremists, those people I would say who cling to the extremes of reality, |
| 1:12.0 | every day normal people's experiences |
| 1:15.9 | of major world news events are so finely different. |
| 1:20.4 | It would make you question if there is a reality at all. |
| 1:24.0 | We live in a world where there are a thousand-on-one ways to communicate, |
| 1:28.0 | and yet we've completely forgotten how to speak to each other. |
| 1:32.0 | As a journalist, I'm among the few people who really can and should talk to all sides. |
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