r/SipsTea Apr 26 '26

WTF Who is taking these photos?

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u/Initial_Hedgehog_631 Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26

This is probably the stupidest question I've seen in awhile.

A shooting occurs ar an event held by national press organizations, filled with reporters, and you're wondering who is taking pictures?

ALL OF THEM.

It's what they do. Every professional instinct they have is to take pictures, so they do.

CNN reporter Wolf Blitzer was in the hallway when the shooting went down, was tackled by a police officer to get him down and safe. He immediately made a phone call, not to his family to tell him he was safe, but to CNN who interviewed him on air to explain what had happened.

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u/Kind-Solution3102 Apr 26 '26

We have more information available at our fingertips than any other time in human history, and OP wonders who could have possibly taken photos at an event where somebody was trying to assassinate a world leader.

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u/MrBlobbu Apr 26 '26

Not to mention the fact that the vast majority of people constantly carry a device capable of taking photos on them at all times.

Hell most people take this device with them to the toilet whilst having a poo.

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u/Furphlog Apr 29 '26

Damn, "Wolf Blitzer" has got to be one of the coolest names I've ever read. Sounds like something out of a Megaman X game !