On this week's On the Media, abducting journalists for PR or profit is the way of ISIS,

and it blinds and deafens the world.

The civil war in Syria has made it the world's most dangerous place for journalists.

We've been in the longest, watched everyone else go home, never stopped believing,

and then, wham, have some of that you're not worth negotiating

for.

The word negotiate has come to mean capitulation and acquiescence.

And negotiations is simply a dialogue, it's simply a channel of communication.

I was trying to look for him.

I was just texting him many, many times.

Later, I found out Abou al-M Majid was beheaded in Palmyra.

I feel like it's my obligation to let them know that it's on our watch that this is happening, this slow-motion genocide.

I don't know if you can understand, but this is our destiny to stay here and to die.

The tangled web of kidnapped reporters.

Stay tuned.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

Monday is Memorial Day.

Some argue that it was first unofficially observed in Charleston in the spring of 1865,

when former slaves exhumed 257 Union soldiers buried en masse in a Confederate prison camp,

and then solemnly reburied them with honor.

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