Marie never practiced partisan journalism, the kind that adopts a cause and reports only the facts that advance it. Having no ideology, she never flinched from reporting stories that cast a bad light on people for whom she had sympathy. She was simply drawn to the underdog. In an interview with the Australian journalist Denise Leith three years later, she reflected on the question of objectivity in war reporting: “When you’re physically uncovering graves in Kosovo, I don’t think there are two sides to the story,” she said. “To me there is a right and a wrong, a morality, and if I don’t report
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