‘Reality doesn’t mean all that much when the Western media talk about Syria’
July 31st, 2012
Manuel Ochsenreiter is Editor-in-chief of the national-conservative German monthly newsmagazine ZUERST has this from his dispatch;
“… A final surprise came at the Lebanese side of the border. There I saw the first time the black-white-green rebel flag waving in the wind. Immediately beyond the Lebanese border station were a dozen Western TV teams, waiting for the ‘refugees’. Some of them were paying interviewees in dollars for short interviews; and the wilder the story, the better they seemed to like it. It seems that reality doesn’t mean all that much when the Western media talk about Syria...”
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