Novaya Gazeta must have been an excellent journalist. Reading the news article of her murder saddened me, and while reading it, this part had the most impact on me:
“Anna has been receiving threats for seven years [since the beginning of the war in Chechnya] and was afraid, but she knew how to overcome her fear, because she understood how important what she was doing was,â€Â
Why did this have the most impact? Because she (in my opinion) is a real journalist. She’s out there, going places where others are afraid to go. Not only that, she was doing it, and was scared, but knew how important it was that she brings truth to the public.
These days American journalists aren’t doing that. I remember my Journalism teacher saying something like “there aren’t a lot of real journalists out there, who take risks to get information and publicize it.”
Russia is a large country, but one that has lots of problems (or so I hear). Hopefully proper legal action can be taken against those who need it, and the murderer of Novaya is found. This is truely saddening.
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