EXPERT: MAINSTREAM MEDIA’S COVERAGE OF SYRIA SERVES POWER ELITE

Wednesday, October 5, 2016
By Paul Martin

Media coverage of Syria appallingly distant from reality, he says

Clifford Cunningham
Infowars.com
OCTOBER 5, 2016

A foreign policy expert assailed the mainstream media’s “convoluted” coverage of the conflict in Syria, suggesting the media is serving the agenda of the power elite.

Stephen Kinzer, a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, claimed the mainstream media’s coverage of the conflict in Syria “will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the American press.”

“Journalism…is supposed to remain apart from the power elite and its inbred mendacity. In this crisis it has failed miserably,” he noted.

Despite the continued effort to demonize the Syrian government and Russian forces for the suffering in Aleppo, Kinzer correctly noted the conflict began when “violent militants” overran Aleppo three years ago and began “a wave of repression.”

“They posted notices warning residents: ‘Don’t send your children to school. If you do, we will get the backpack and you will get the coffin,’” he wrote. “Then they destroyed factories, hoping that unemployed workers would have no recourse other than to become fighters. They trucked looted machinery to Turkey and sold it.”

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