Journalists do it

Little Green Footballs posts a correction:

Correction: the person who produces Kevin Sites’ blog, Xeni Jardin, emailed to tell me that “Images Against War” used the photos linked above without permission, and included these remarks:

And as for the remarks in the body of the post — do you think he has any control over how Al-Jazeera uses the footage? He simply witnessed somthing and reported it. That’s what journalists do.

I wonder. If Fox News wanted videotape of the execution rooms, or of any other atrocities committed by the terrorists in Fallujah, would they be able to get copies of Mr. Sites' viedotapes? Would Mr. Sites greet their use of such footage – say, broadcasting the bloodiest bits every half hour – with the same equanimity we see in this case?