Faith

“Covering a war means going into places torn by chaos, destruction, death and pain, and trying to bear witness to that. I care about the experience of those most directly affected by war, those asked to fight and those who are just trying to survive. Going into those places, finding out what is happening, is the only way to get at the truth.

“Despite all the videos you see on television, what's on the ground has remained remarkably the same for the past 100 years. Craters. Burnt houses. Women weeping for sons and daughters. Suffering. In my professional, there is no chance of unemployment. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity to believe that someone will care.”

—Marie Colvin (1956-2012), foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times, killed in a rocket attack while covering the war in Syria. “Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice,” The Guardian, November 2010.

• Editorial Comment: Doing journalism is an act of faith.

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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
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