Yeah I've been looking at this, same as everyone else who watches the news.
What makes this "more" tragic that these two journalists are dead is because they were talented people who's work is easily available to view, but you really have to think about all the other poor, unsung talented and intelligent bastards who are killed in wars who's work isn't as publicly available to view as theirs was.
It's a shame that they're dead but in the end it's just as tragic as an entire bloody town being deliberately wiped off the map indiscriminately using mortar shells with civilians still inside. It was brave of them to care enough about what was going on to want to work in Syria, but you have to remember that they were there by choice, unlike most of the civilians. That doesn't make it less of a shame, but I just hope the coverage of their deaths and extra attention that their last reports are receiving now will emphasis this atrocity more in the eyes of the world.
It begs the question though: Why should it need deaths of "more important" (to us westerners anyway) people to draw attention to a serious issue that should be incredibly prominent anyway? I don't remember the bombing of Homs to be as prominent in the news as it is now until today.
Blah I just woke up from an afternoon nap. This may not make much sense.
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