After Republican Congressmen called out Reuters photographer Joshua Roberts last week for photographing items on the desk of a House Judiciary Committee member, Twitter trolls erupted in anger and Roberts ended up leaving the hearing “voluntarily.” As it turned out, Roberts had broken no rules, and was just doing his job within ethical bounds, according to several of his colleagues.
Reuters photojournalist Joshua Roberts was escorted out of yesterday’s Impeachment Hearings after a Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee noticed him taking photos of the papers on one of the Democratic members’ desks at the dais. Reuters maintains that Roberts was doing nothing wrong.
From First Photos Published Under New Pentagon Policy on War Dead:
“The military takes it incredibly seriously,” says Joshua Roberts, a freelance photographer based in Washington who covered the transfer for Reuters. “It’s a very formal, very respectful transfer… Hiding it is not really a good thing. It’s good to show it.”
