From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

You're hearing live-streamed video posted on YouTube of the Syrian government's bombardment of civilians in Homs.

State policy that a United Nations panel this week said amounts to a crime against humanity.

Citizen journalists, like this 26-year-old live-streamer,

Rami al-Sayed, often have been the only one's position

to expose what's happening in Syria.

Now he's dead, killed Tuesday in the streets of Han.

Once there were wars in which journalists were considered, if not honest, brokers, then parties to be courted. When waggish American Middle East

reporters could wear t-shirts exhorting in Arabic, don't shoot, press, and assume, at the

very least, it would not make them more of a

target. But that was decades ago.

Now you're hearing the Skype conversation on Wednesday between two Syrian activists, one

at a makeshift press center in the Bob Amar district of Holmes.

Marie Colvin is there, a legendary American journalist reporting for the UK's Sunday Times.

Marie Colvin was 56.

Through the miracle of Skype, you just heard her die.

Also there was Remy Oeschlick 28, a prize-winning French photographer.

He died as well.

The baby's death was just heartbreaking, possibly because it was so quiet.

Marie Calvin on what may have been her last broadcast with CNN's Anderson Cooper.

She was in a makeshift clinic, an apartment actually, with plasma bags hanging from coat hangers.

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