As a reporter myself who had to cover the Columbine shootings, I would say that it's our job as photo or print journalists to accurately document an event to the best of our ability. That's the best we can offer the families who are involved, the victims and the viewers or readers of your media.
In your case, I would say, if you have the opportunity, then take the shot. Sometimes it's about being in the right place at the right time. Do we say that those people who took shots of the 911 terrorists attacks, planes hitting the building and people jumping out the buildings were being vultures or do we honor those shots as a photographic memory, so to speak, of the event?
For those who weren't there, they need our "eyes and ears" to help make sense of an event.
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