HIGHWAY TO THE DANGER ZONE.

American Journalism Review,  April, 2000  by RICCHIARDI, SHERRY

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That's the road Marie Colvin travels to the world's battlefields. Her vivid writing, sometimes first person, and clear point of view make for compelling reading in the Sunday Times of London. But do her techniques cross the line?

The pitch blackness slipped away, stealing their only cover as they drove through a snowy mountain pass deep in Chechen-held territory. The first shafts of sunlight served as a deadly cue.

Suddenly, it came. A bone-chilling screech shattered the quiet of the gray, subzero morning in the towering mountains south of Grozny. Russian warplanes swooped like ...

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