Saturday, October 14, 2006
Politkovskaya Story on NPR
Ana Politkovskaya was born in the United States to parents who were Soviet Union Diplomats, I did not know this about her, she then if she had not been born to dipolomats, she had the right to be considered as a fellow citizen, she was born breathing our free air. I did not know this! I also heard on the same NPR story the story that may have gotten her killed.She said about the Russian forces in Chechniya what I have said more than a few times about what American forces are causing in Iraq. She was brave, she went to Chechniya herself, and put her life on the line to do her work. She didn't take one side only, she was hard in her reporting, on the war-lords in Chechniya, who are also evil, whether it is an ideological opposition or a religious extremist opposition. This is important because the Soviet Union did not have such journalists, except for her, Putin's 'new' Russia didn't either.
You can't have democracy or a truely free society without investigative journalism. Investigative journalist is what keeps the system honest! The journalist has to be ready to risk his or her life, the society that has some pretensions to democracy is in no danger of falling or being killed by the journalist. It can crush the journalist with everything it has.
It must not.
Politkovskaya Story
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6266690
You can't have democracy or a truely free society without investigative journalism. Investigative journalist is what keeps the system honest! The journalist has to be ready to risk his or her life, the society that has some pretensions to democracy is in no danger of falling or being killed by the journalist. It can crush the journalist with everything it has.
It must not.
Politkovskaya Story
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6266690
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