Marie Colvin… She… Did Not Die in Vain…
Marie Colvin…
Distinguished… “Sunday Times“… journalist…
Fearless… fantastic…
Complex…
Fiercely… competitive…
Driven…
Marie Catherine Colvin… an American journalist… born 1957 in Oyster Bay, New York…
She started her career… after graduating from Yale University… as a midnight until 6 a.m. police reporter for United Press International in New York City… In 1984, she became… Paris bureau chief for UPI, moving one year later to The Sunday Times in London… where she became Middle East correspondent… later… Foreign Affairs correspondent… specialising in the Middle East…
Colvin… also covered the bloody conflicts… in Chechnya, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, and Sri Linka… where she lost an eye to shrapnel in April 2001… thus her trademark black eye patch.
Marie won the International Women’s Media Foundation‘s… “Courage in Journalism“ award in 2000… and “Foreign Reporter of the Year” award at the British Press Awards in both 2001 and 2010.
She was quoted… in 2010…
“Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice… We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story… what is bravery and what is bravado?”
We believe… she herself has already answered this question… with her own courage…
Inspirational…
Marie Colvin… was killed by artillery shells… along with twenty eight year old award-winning French photographer Rémi Ochlik… in the Baba Amr district… of the besieged city of Homs, Syria…
Desperately… sad…
Tragically… unacceptable…
Frédéric Mitterrand… the French Culture Minister said that both journalists… had been “targeted“…
Jean-Pierre Perrin… a French correspondent for the Paris-based… “Libération” newspaper… said that they were deliberately shelled down.
Colvin… had said in a report published in “The Sunday Times” over the weekend… that the people of Homs were… “waiting for a massacre“.
Marie Colvin… by covering combat war-zones all over the world… shouldered great responsibilities with bravery and courage insisting… that reporting “truth to power… was worth it…”.
We urgently hope… that her inspiring courage and dedication in helping the powerless… reminds the world… of the crucial value of journalism.
Marie Colvin…
Feisty… charming…
Sociable…
Witty…
She had tremendous… “joie de vivre“.
Beneath… the tough exterior…
There beats… a tender heart…
Marie Colvin…
Reporters like her… remind us that…
Their work… their sacrifice… matters enormously…
Brilliant… passionate…
Courageous…
To the end…
She… and… they….
DID NOT…
Die…
In vain…
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