Today it was confirmed that the war correspondent Marie Colvin has died in the Syrian city of Homs.

lipstick-feminists:

Click-through for the full speech she delivered on the importance of war reporting.

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?

I heard about this before class today. It made me extremely sad. 

Source: lipstick-feminists