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Funeral held for American journalist killed in Syria
CNN By Jesse Solomon, CNN Marie Colvin's mother, Rosemarie, watches her daughter's casket pass by after her funeral Monday in Oyster Bay, New York. “She was an outstanding reporter … she covered a lot of wars,” John Witherow says New York (CNN) … Reporter killed in Syria recalled as truth seeker New York funeral for Homs reporter Marie Colvin Mourners gather to say goodbye to war reporter Marie Colvin
Marie Colvin’s tragic death in Syria shows that social networks are only part of the answer. When it comes to exposing a cruel dictatorship to the world, there’s no substitute for a war reporter There’s a lesson to Marie Colvin’s death beyond the torrent of tributes to her courage, eloquence and passion. “In an age of 24-7 rolling news, blogs and twitters,” she said in that much-quoted St
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