The Corporate Media’s Dubious Syria Coverage | Global Research

The Corporate Media’s Dubious Syria Coverage | Global Research

Western news media reportage on the rampant criminal activities
of foreign-backed paramilitary groups operating within Syria still
relies heavily on unreliable sources frequently referred to as
“activists.” Such spokespersons routinely claim the Syrian military are
committing atrocities against the Syrian population. The reports are
often disputed by the Bashar al-Assad government and proven suspect or
false when additional information is unearthed by independent
researchers and alternative news media.

In July 2012 UK journalist Charlie Skelton reported
that Western news outlets remain willing accomplices in a propaganda
campaign being carried out by public relations practitioners. According
to Skelton, “the spokespeople, the ‘experts on Syria’, the ‘democracy
activists’ … The people who ‘urge’ and ‘warn’ and ‘call for action’”
against the Assad regime are themselves part of a sophisticated and
well-heeled propaganda campaign to allow NATO forces to give Syria the
same medicine administered to Libya in 2011. “They’re selling the idea
of military intervention and regime change,” Skelton reports,

and the mainstream news is hungry to buy. Many of
the “activists” and spokespeople representing the Syrian opposition are
closely (and in many cases financially) interlinked with the US and
London – the very people who would be doing the intervening. Which means
information and statistics from these sources isn’t necessarily pure
news – it’s a sales pitch, a PR campaign.[1]