Most of the western news media have been virtually celebrating the assassination of three senior Syrian officials, including the Defence Minister, by terrorists; there are the usual mild disapprovals of such methods in feel-good, exculpatory editorials. Here Charlie Skelton, a sceptical journalist, noting that ‘asking questions doesn’t make you a cheerleader for Assad’, discovers that ‘the media have been too passive when it comes to Syrian opposition sources, without scrutinising their backgrounds and their political connections. Time for a closer look …’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/12/syrian-opposition-doing-the-talking
(Courtesy: Susan Ram)