Photo: #In this Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 photo, man who witnesses say was shot by a government sniper during a demonstration lies in a hospital in Idlib, Syria. President Bashar Assad's government vowed to continue its crackdown on a nearly 11-month-old uprising that has become one of the deadliest of the Arab Spring.
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In this Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 photo, man who witnesses say was shot by a government sniper during a demonstration lies in a hospital in Idlib, Syria. President Bashar Assad's government vowed to continue its crackdown on a nearly 11-month-old uprising that has become one of the deadliest of the Arab Spring. (Anonymous/ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Sunday Times foreign correspondent Marie Colvin, and French photojournalist Remi Ochlik, were reportedly staying in a house in Baba Amr, Syria that was being used by activists as a media centre when it was hit by a shell on Wednesday morning. Do we expect journalists to risk their lives to bring us the story?

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