Challenging realities, the mainstream media and you: Harry Fear at TEDxCopenhagen

In an age when anyone can become a citizen journalist, with little more than their smartphone, we should have higher expectations of the discipline’s work — both commercial and independent and citizen reporting. In the West particularly, we need more human tragedy reportage, which is a cornerstone of humane, watchdog and investigative journalism. Such journalism is often responsible for the first draft of the historical record. And so often this journalism fails us, reducing tragedy to statistics. This is r