Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Syria in the 'Maistream media'

Huffpost/ Toronto Sun:
"... As the regime of Bashar al-Assad continues its year-long campaign to kill whole towns of Syrian protestors, pressure grows on the U.S. and its allies to do something -- something being air strikes as were done in Libya...."
Chicago Tribune:
"... Sitting in his sumptuous palace, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can almost certainly hear the drip, drip, drip, like a leaky faucet, of his life dribbling away...."
Boston Globe/ AP:
"... A pro-regime militiaman in Syria was hanged from a tree in the northern province of Idlib as masked rebels cheered his gruesome death ...The unidentified man was a member of the shabiha,  and he was accused of shooting civilians and spying for President Bashar Assad's regime, according to the person who shot the video... The video was obtained by an Associated Press journalist recently on assignment in Idlib, and it was transmitted Tuesday. The location and the course of events that led to the scene cannot be independently verified. But the voice on the footage said the man was killed by fighters from the rebel Free Syrian Army ...."

1 comment:

Amused Founding Senior Member of the FLC said...

One cannot but salute the 'integrity', 'knowledge', and 'far sightedness' of US media's covering of Syria! When will these jackasses learn that wishful thinking is no substitute to accurate (checked and double checked) reporting of facts on the ground?