Title: FSRN Anthony Shadid passes Away
Added: Feb 22, 2012
Author: CommissarRed
Duration: 2:22
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And finally, Anthony Shadid, the award-winning journalist who reported on conflicts and uprisings in the Middle East, was honored with a George Polk Award posthumously today. Shadid died last week apparently after an asthma attack, while covering the pro-democracy protests in Syria. In announcing the award, the George Polk Foundation said Shadid would be honored for his "extraordinary valor." Shadid won a Polk Award in 2002 and two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his coverage of Iraq, following the US invasion. His singular reporting brought the voices of residents who were often marginalized or caught up in regional violence. He also faced danger in his own reporting. In 2002, he was shot in the shoulder while reporting in the West Bank as a correspondent for the Boston Globe. In March 2011, he was kidnapped and beaten in Libya by forces of Muammar Gaddafi. In December 2010, Shadid spoke at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he graduated. He described how upon his recent return from Iraq, he struggled to explain his experiences to his young daughter."It made no sense, what I told her and she didn't really understand. In the end what I tried to convey to her were numbers -- so many people died. But what are numbers really, but grounds for debate? In the end it's about stories. And if I've learned one thing, I think, in fifteen years of being a foreign correspondent, it's that only stories really matter."Shadid, who was Lebanese American, and spoke Arabic, often brought stories that were rarely seen in Western media. In a tribute, the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalist Association said Shadid was not only a remarkable reporter but a "source of immeasurable pride for an entire generation of Arab-American journalists who found in [him] a mentor, inspiration and friend." Shadid died on February 16 while crossing the border from Syria to Turkey, according to the New York Times. He was 43.More at http://fsrn.org/
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CommissarRed Says:
Feb 23, 2012 - Both his asythma and equine allergies were well known. And his family were present for his fatal attack. A tragic loss to be sure.
enddebtslavery Says:
Feb 23, 2012 - Another journalist that started getting a bit close to the truth maybe?