The Importance of Decency in Journalism

The site Bellingcat was founded by a guy who was a something awful forums goon named Elliot Higgins. And there's been a number of stories that they've broken but one of them is that after I think it was image 17, the Malaysian air flight that was shot down over Ukraine. They just spent God knows how many hours combing over pictures of the wreckage in pictures of Russian troop movements at the time. To identify which missile based on the serial numbers on the missile shot down the plane from like a Russian buck launcher and then traced its path from Russia into the Ukraine to prove that it was the Russian back separatists in Ukraine who shotdown the plane. That's the kind of journalism