So when a Syrian rebel cuts out a heart of a dead soldier and eats it on camera, the news is of the rolling bulletin/24hr on all news shows variety, replete with blurred footage of the crime in question. Does it matter that the original video is extremely graphic? That it is no more verifiable than the millions of videos uploaded online from the Syria civil war? It does not. I’ve basically had my two cents said on this before, but when today footage emerges of a man being beheaded and thrown into a pit just north of Aleppo (I won’t link to it; your blood lust is just a google search away) I find myself wondering: Well, what’s altogether different about Abu Sakkar…
