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Cargando... Murder Without Borders: Dying for the Story in the World's Most Dangerous Placespor Terry Gould
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"I am not interested in why man commits evil; I want to know why he does good." -- Vaclav Havel What makes a poor, small-town journalist stay on a story even though threatened with certain death, and offered handsome rewards for looking the other way? Over four years, Terry Gould has travelled to Colombia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Russia and Iraq - the countries in which journalists are most likely to be murdered on the job - to attempt to answer this question. In each place, through conversations with their colleagues, their families and in some cases their murderers, he uncovers the lives of local reporters and broadcasters who stayed on a story to the point of death. He searches for the moment in which each of his protagonists understood that they were willing to die, and finds complex reasons for their bravery. In his wonderfully vivid portraits of seven courageous souls, he brings their lives and the stories they worked on to light, telling truth to those who would murder truth tellers. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The stories cover journalists from Latin America, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Iraq and Russia.
What makes journalists brave and willing to take risks despite knowing the threat to their lives? In each case, there is a different answer. Lest we forget, there are brave and honest people in the world.
My only gripe with the book is that Terry Gould did not highlight the forces and incidents that made them change. These sometimes got lost in the stories of their lives. The detail is fascinating, but for a person far removed from the lives of these brave people, the tales can get tedious.
All in all, it is a fascinating book and one that deserves a wide reading.
The people covered:
Guillermo Bravo Vega
Marlene Garcia-Esperat
Manik Chandra Saha
Anna Politkovskaya
Valery Ivanov & Alexei Sidorov
Khalid V. Hassan
Remember their names. ( )