American Reporter Killed
25 year old Christopher Allen was one of nineteen killed when fighting broke out on the boarder of South Sudan and Uganda. According to Col. Santo Domic Chol,Christopher was killed in the cross fire. According to one of his friends, Pat Hughes, “He went to South Sudan for the same reason all good journalists go to trouble spots: to get the story and to bring that story to the world’s attention.” What I find interesting is, why this story hasn't been circulated on the news. Why is it that I only found this story while looking for something to post for a class blog? We are so focused on what is happening in our own little bubbles that most people don't know what is actually happening in the world around them. Maybe I went and took a different direction with this article. Perhaps it was just supposed to be an article about a young journalist who happened to be killed while doing research on the fight in South Sudan. But I saw it as something that not a lot of peo