‘A DAY WITHOUT NEWS’ DAY: A MINUTE SILENCE FOR OUR FALLEN HEROES
‘A DAY WITHOUT NEWS’ DAY: A MINUTE SILENCE FOR OUR FALLEN HEROES “My family is so deeply appreciative of the efforts of the ‘A Day Without News’ campaign, for raising awareness not only of my sister’s murder at the hands of the Syrian government but of the growing numbers of journalists and photographers who are targeted in war zones throughout the world every day. I am particularly touched that February 22 nd , the anniversary of Marie’s death, would be selected as the day to launch this critically important effort.” — Cat Colvin (Late Marie Colvin’s Sister) “It’s really important to show the world not as we imagine it but the world as it is: beautiful, amazing but so, so vicious. And photographers and journalists do this every day, every hour. Some of them die for this. We have to make the general public sensitive to the importance of the press. One year ago, on February 22 nd , Rémi Ochlik died in Syria doing his job, and because he was doing his job, he was targeted, and...