Revised Conclusion

The revision is better because it is written in a more organized way. The transition from body to conclusion still needs work, but this one reads much better. I liked the approach in the Student's Guide of answering the "so what?" so I changed the last paragraph with this in mind.

Original conclusion

A close friend of Carter, the war correspondent Judith Matloff, said once that he would “talk about the guilt of the people he couldn’t save because he photographed them as they were being killed.” This was an impossible weight for him to bear alone. The burden had been getting steadily heavier with every act of violence he witnessed and recorded.  He to show the world what was happening, a world that did expect him to do just that.  

To first misunderstand, and then condemn, what a photojournalist does, or in this case, fails to do, are symptoms of a much larger social problem in society: misconceptions that signaled the end of Kevin Carter.

Revised conclusion

A close friend of Carter, the war correspondent Judith Matloff, said once that he would “talk about the guilt of the people he couldn’t save because he photographed them as they were being killed.” The weight of that guilt had been getting steadily heavier with every act of violence he witnessed and recorded, until it became impossible to bear alone. Yet it seemed that the rest of the world expected him to do just that, even while under personal attack.

The misconceptions surrounding this issue did more than just wrongly condemn one photojournalist. They illustrate the deep cultural and social chasms that exist between people in a world that is, for all intents and purposes, getting smaller. It is a foregone conclusion that there will always be differences of opinion among people. But disregarding relevant facts that surround photojournalism will only make these divisions wider, causing the war, the violence,  and the famines to continue. The question is not only whether photojournalism should be supported and preserved by the people, but whether the truth should be as well.