CNN’s Anderson Cooper reflects on his interview with journalist Marie Colvin hours before she was killed in Syria. (source)

I’m reminded of the film “City on Fire” (released in come countries as “5 days of war”) which centers on the job and motivations of war journalists, and sometimes the lengths they go to for important footage and getting it to the public. 

The film dramatizes it a bit, but the dangers are generally real. 

I wrote a post about the Dili Massacre of 1991 in East Timor. It was recorded on camera by two American journalists. They had to smuggle the tape through another friend travelling in a different direction, because the Indonesian authorities had tipped off Australian customs, who would have confiscated it. 

The fact that they willingly go into war zones to bring the truth of war and conflict to the masses, and also have to dance with governments which would bury their evidence… 

They deserve all the respect which most people don’t give them.