The YouTube War -- Baltimore Sun
The Assad regime may ultimately be done in by cadres of citizen journalists bearing witness to their country's struggle against tyranny.
The flood of video images emerging from the besieged city of Homs and other rebellious towns in Syria have shocked the world with their depictions of President Bashar Assad's bloody crackdown on innocent civilians.
The images, nearly all of them taken with hand-held cellphone cameras, were not made by professional journalists (most of whom have been barred from entering the country) but by ordinary Syrians caught up in the terrifying chaos of war.
We rarely witness a conflict at such close range, or so intimately from the viewpoint of the participants, and perhaps for that very reason the fuzzy, slightly off-kilter immediacy of these images makes the suffering and death they record all the more gripping.
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My Comment: Ten years ago I would never have dreamed of something like YouTube being available to cover a conflict. Today .... it is indispensable.
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