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Sunday, January 27, 2019

entry arrow11:25 PM | A Portrait of Fearlessness



I have a simmering anger for people who dismiss those who work in the media as “fake news,” knowing full well how hundreds of journalists have DIED in the pursuit of truth, and are often targets of dictators who want news skewed to render their wrongdoings perceived as right. Watching Matthew Heineman’s A Private War (2018), starring Rosamunde Pike as the fearless journalist Maria Colvin who died in 2012 in a nail bomb targeted specifically for journalists covering Assad’s murderous reign in Syria, is a powerful and saddening experience. it makes me proud of being a journalist, and also makes me ask the uncomfortable question: why am I not doing more like she did?

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