The Price That Journalists Can Pay

Despite what you hear about the mainstream press from some quarters, legitimate news outlets in America provide an invaluable service to our country. They are staffed with professional journalists who report what they find, even if that upsets the people in power.

In other countries it often doesn't work that way, and when it does, the journalists themselves are in danger. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a journalist from Malta who wrote about corruption. Among the stories she broke, the Panama Papers, which exposed Vladimir Putin's worldwide money laundering.

Yesterday Daphne got into her car, turned the ignition, and was blown to bits.