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What to do, wondered NBC's Martin Fletcher, when "terrified" refugees come across a camera crew and assume that the journalists are border police? Should the newsmen keep reporting or should they vacate the scene so that the desperate would-be emigrants can cross the border unmolested?
Fletcher is clearly not cut out to be an Arizona Minuteman. He tossed bottled water across the razor wire fence and walked away. The border was the one between Zimbabwe and South Africa--and the refugees were running away from Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak. "What is more important? Their freedom or our story?" Fletcher asked rhetorically to justify his departure. He was being disingenuous, since--having his cake and eating it too--he filed a dynamic enough story anyway.
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