Everything is a choice in the end. But I also think that out of the hundreds of thousands of camera operators in the world you had to look for an exceptional one to make a point. Before you take it personal and form a general opinion based on that one anecdote sit on it for a minute and think, is this example relevant for the discussion? Is he the rule or the exception?

What about the situation from the article? The operator who's sitting in a small football stadium of a small Scottish second league team pointing the camera at what could be charitably described as an average football match for 90 minutes? How many operators filmed Diana's crash in Paris and the fall of Ghadaffi, and how many only film mundane, mediocre things their entire career?

> (much of which was caused by the tech industry - specifically facebook)

I took the tech industry just as a good example of an all round good, well paying job in general, not to pass judgement on what it brings to the world. My comment history could tell you as much. Mass media deserves its share of jabs as I'm sure you agree. But neither of the jabs make any my arguments or conclusion any less valid.