It was in a civil war in a Middle Eastern country. Michelle, Jack, Elliott and Laura were American journalists, they almost always travelled together because in wartime it is safer to work as a team than alone, then at night, each one writes their own report and sends it to their bosses.
Like almost all journalists, each of them had a Twitter account, it is a great tool to freely give and receive information. During a car ride to a meeting with some underground rebels for an interview, Jack lamented having to delete one of his tweets because some of his information was inaccurate. Elliot taunted him. Laura was upset with Elliott's arrogance and reproached him saying that surely he must have had to delete his own tweets hundreds of times, but Elliott said that he never deleted any of his tweets because he is so confident in himself. At that moment, Elliott's arrogance was unbearable.
The interview with the rebels was not easy at all. They had their faces covered. The rebels acted very restless and apprehensive, which made the interview difficult, in fact, the interview was being a nightmare for both groups. They both wanted to finish as soon as possible except for Elliott. Elliott began to be impertinent by asking questions that were quite obvious they didn't like. In fact, Elliott made the situation too tense until the rebel leader said; "Enough, the interview is over," but Elliott insisted on getting more information, it was too late, the rebels refused to take any more questions.
The meeting had taken place in a lonely house on the outskirts. After that, while they were walking back to the car, Elliott was showing very angry with the rebels, he wanted to go back to the house to ask a few more questions, his companions tried to persuade him to relax. However, Elliott was determined to ask them a couple of questions. Michelle, Jack, and Laura were in a difficult situation because they couldn't let Elliott go there alone. Elliott was acting like a stubborn, selfish, and stupid man because he was putting them all at risk.
Then Elliott started walking towards the rebel house again, the other three were following him against their will. When they were about 50 meters from the door of the house, the door was suddenly opened and the rebels came out screaming with firearms, the four journalists fell to the ground, but it was too late, the rebels killed them all. The rebel leader said: "I told you it was over."
Elliott's stubbornness ended his life and that of his peers. However, this is not a justification for the murderers, they committed a crime and they must pay for it.
Antoni Font Bardolet 21/08/2020, Aberdeen.
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