Earlier this month, the captain of the USS Roosevelt was fired.
The reason is that he exposed the dangerous situation of the aircraft carrier.
In the case of multiple soldiers infected with the new crown virus pneumonia, he wrote to the top for help, asking for the evacuation of more than 4,000 soldiers on the ship as soon as possible.
On the day of his departure, thousands of officers and soldiers collectively sang to bid him farewell, and some people shouted in the crowd: Hero, goodbye!
In order to ensure the safety of the lives of his subordinates, Captain Crozier wrote a four-page handwritten letter to his superiors.
He said in the letter: If the officers and men on the quarantine carrier are not evacuated as soon as possible, the situation of the ROOSEVELt aircraft carrier will be even more terrible than that of the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
Captain Klossell, Credit: The New York Times
A man who dared to tell the truth was angrily rebuked by former ACTING SECRETARY of the U.S. Navy Mordley:
"Either too naïve or too stupid!"
The crowd applauded Klozer and said goodbye, taken by NBC NEWS YOUTUBE CHANNEL
Sometimes, telling the truth requires not only courage, but also a huge price.
As a result, some people choose to see people and talk about people, and see ghosts and talk about ghosts.
But there are always some people who are willing to pay the price of their lives for the truth.
For example, the movie that my cousin wants to share today based on real events.
"Mr. Jones"
Mr. Jones
2019.2.10 Berlin Film Festival
>>> The idealist's wall
Gareth Jones, the film's male protagonist, was a knowledgeable and passionate man who was a foreign adviser to the leader of the British Liberal Party at the time.
He was young and vigorous, did not know the height of the sky, and at the meeting, he was angry with a number of powerful and high-ranking officials.
As a result, he was fired.
Before leaving, tell the boss: I am the only one who tells the truth.
The sacked Jones' blood was still surging in his chest, and he wanted to travel to the Soviet Union to interview the then-leader Stalin.
But here's the problem, he's a "three-no-journalist"—no background, no editor-in-chief, no publisher.
To put it bluntly, Jones is a hot-blooded young man who wants to become a journalist but has not yet become a journalist.
With his ideals and love of journalism, Jones finally arrived in Moscow.
But there is always a wall between ideal and reality, and the life of Moscow journalists is not as he thinks:
From the streets and alleys to the homes they live in, pervasive eyes watch their every move.
The indulgence of the lights has become their best antidote, and since nothing can be done, it is better to enjoy the moment.
The singing and dancing on the surface rises to a flat
Actually being watched
Jones met With Durantie, the editor-in-chief of The New York Times, in Moscow, hoping to interview Stalin through him.
The editor-in-chief happens to be the opposite of Jones, who is a "realist" and a "man who knows the times and is a good man".
He told Jones that meeting Stalin was not an easy task.
Jones learns from the editor-in-chief that his friend has been assassinated, and he wonders what earth-shattering secret made his friend lose his life.
He decides to travel to Ukraine to find out the truth, but the editor-in-chief's female secretary finds Jones's idea too naïve.
At this time Jones told the female secretary:
"Journalism is the noblest industry, you follow the facts, and wherever it leads, you don't take sides."
>>> How far from the truth?
Jones came by train to hit Ukraine.
What did he see in Ukraine?
- Hell on earth.
In snowy Ukraine, Jones stepped off the train and saw people slumped on the snow.
Grain parcels were scattered on the ground, and the crowd rushed up like hungry wolves to scramble.
What he saw was the Great Soviet Famine of 1932 and 1933.
Hunger and cold, the people are not happy, the snow is full of corpses, it is impossible to distinguish whether they are frozen to death or starved to death.
Jones nibbled on the hard-to-swallow bark and recorded it all with the camera, recording the untold truth.
The newborn baby sits on the snow waiting to be fed, and beside him lies the dead relatives.
He saw the cruelty of cutting flesh and drinking blood, and the "cannibalism" had long been seen in this snow-covered land.
Jones, who had recorded all this, was quickly taken away for questioning by officials.
Have you seen happy and proud farmers?
See the amazing efficiency of our collective farms?
Any rumors about famine, just rumors, you say?
Jones, who was in custody, told the officials:
"Rumors, no famine."
When he was released, Jones met the editor-in-chief of The New York Times at the landing.
The editor-in-chief said: "You shouldn't be dragged down by your courage to go to jail. ”
Jones knew that the tragedy in Ukraine was known to the editor-in-chief early on.
But he said nothing, did nothing, and became the mouthpiece of the Soviet government.
Jones was repatriated to England and was asked about the Soviet Union at a gathering with friends.
He said that if he wrote a book about his experiences in Ukraine, 6 innocent people would be killed.
But this book may save countless lives.
The writer sitting next to him told Jones:
"You tell the truth, don't care about the consequences, it's your responsibility and our right to listen to you."
Jones chose to tell the truth, telling the public what he had seen and heard in Ukraine.
But things didn't turn out far from what he expected.
He was the first journalist to publish in Western newspapers about the Holodomor in Ukraine, but his coverage was not popular among his peers at the time because many intellectuals were sympathetic to the Soviet regime.
The editor-in-chief of The New York Times rakes him as a liar, and Jones's story is nothing more than "rumor-mongering."
Jones's efforts were rewarded with slander and incomprehension from the masses, and he would be scorned when he walked down the street, and ignorant children would humiliate him by grimacing at him.
Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union eased somewhat, and the United States officially recognized the Soviet government.
U.S. business leaders saw the move as a conduit to expand trade, and it was the editor-in-chief of The New York Times who persuaded U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.
Editor-in-Chief Duranti, credited with bringing the United States closer to the Soviet Union, was called "the hero of Moscow" by readers.
Jones, on the other hand, was called "Crazy.".
Jones could only cry helplessly, but he had no regrets.
Speaking the truth is what he should do as a journalist.
There is another international version of The Mr. Jones poster with this sentence:
"A man who gambled his life for truth, an untold story"
（The untold story of the man who risked his life for the truth）
Also known as The Truth in the Snow, Jones tells the truth about the snow in Ukraine, but is buried in the snow in The River Reis.
The day before his birthday, he was kidnapped by robbers and shot dead at the age of 29.
Poster of the international version of the film
The film's director, Agneska Holland (House of Cards, Line of Fire), had this to say when The first trailer was released for Mr. Jones:
"We wanted to describe how Jones went into hell in search of the truth in a simple, direct and resonant way. How to face the harsh reality with idealism, courage and enthusiasm. I realized that this story has a lot to do with today's realities: fake news, corruption in the media, cowardice in government, and apathy of the people. The conflict between Jones's courage and determination and Duranty's (editor-in-chief)'s secular opportunism and cowardice is still there today. We have no shortage of corrupt conformists and egoists. What we're missing is people like Orwell and Jones, and that's why I'm going to show their stories in a cinematic way. ”
A photo of Mr. Jones himself
Image source: garethjones.org
>>> Where is our "Mr. Jones"?
Some journalists and media today lack the spirit of defending truth and justice, as Mr. Jones has.
They're chasing heat, data, attention, not truth.
The recent hot search on social media also touched the cousin's heart.
In the years of fermentation of the incident, why has not a media come forward to report it fairly and impartially?
Why did some media first give the victim's name publicly, but give the abuser a pseudonym and mark his photo with a mosaic?
In the torrent of the times, we have always limited the ability to collect information.
Media and journalists' coverage is a key part of how we receive information.
But how many media and journalists can uphold the original intention and present the facts and truths to us?
As the director says, there is no shortage of corrupt conformists and egoists in this era.
What's missing are people like Jones.
Where is our Mr. Jones?
In 2003, on the 70th anniversary of the famine in Ukraine, the Inter-American Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament launched a campaign to revoke the Duranti Award, the editor-in-chief of The New York Times.
The New York Times issued a public relations statement saying Duranti's report was "one of the worst stories the newspaper has ever published."
To demonstrate the newspaper's determination to draw a line with Duranti, the New York Times specifically wrote in its showroom that "reporters from The New York Times and other media outlets do not approve of his reporting, under durant's 1932 Pulitzer Prize certificate." ”
Welsh plaque made in honor of Jones, source: Wikipedia
In 2006, a plaque commemorating Jones was placed at the University of Wales.
Officials from the Ukrainian Embassy in the UK at the time, as well as Jones's family, and many Ukrainians also attended the unveiling ceremony.
He is regarded as an "unsung hero" by the Ukrainian people, and Ukraine's ambassador to the UK, Ihor Kharkyako, said at the unveiling ceremony that Mr. Jones was "an outstanding figure worth remembering for all".