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

I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And this is the sound of incendiary munitions in the area of East Ghouta in Syria on March 7th.

Syrian government forces have been laying siege to the Damascus suburb for months.

The result has been endless, anguish and misery.

Doctors Without Borders has said that in the two weeks between February 18th and March 3rd,

over a thousand people were killed.

More are reported every day.

But not reported enough, says one reporter, not nearly enough.

Thalia Beatty is a journalist with Storyful, a news outlet that monitors and fact-check's social media for news outlets to use.

She got in touch with us, writing, quote, the silence around this brutal stage in the

Syrian war is difficult to reconcile with what I'm seeing. She's been watching the stream of horrific

videos and posts from East Guta, all featuring civilians caught in the crossfire or just plain targeted in a bloody

civil war, victims of a scorched earth campaign by the Assad regime trying to route opposition

fighters, just as in Aleppo in late 2016.

Some heartbreaking video from Aleppo today, children begging for food, their desperate attempt at evacuation, uncertain.

We have the very latest that's next.

That brutal siege, unlike the current atrocities, became big news here, at least in part because the U.S. government was agonizing over its responsibilities.

It has been one of the hardest issues that I faced as president.

The world, as we speak, is united in horror at the savage assault by the Syrian regime and its Russian and Iranian allies on the city of Aleppo.

And just last year, more headlines were generated by the bombing of Raqa by a U.S.-led coalition.

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