In the Line of Duty

摘要

NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel's harrowing ordeal in Syria put an exclamation point on the always-current dangers involved in being the world's eyes and ears in troubled times and places. Sadly, however, it was only the latest in a growing rnnumber of incidents that have resulted in anything from psychological torture-Engel and company had to endure mock executions-to injury and death. It was almost a year ago that we watched the U.K.'s Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, her familiar eye patch the result of a 2001 Sri Lankan ambush, reporting on CNN about the death of a child as collateral damage in the Syrian uprising. A day later, she was dead, the victim of an attack on her makeshift pressroom.