"Abu Omar, 28, an activist reached by telephone". How do you reach them by phone, or wise foreign correspondent? Do you just pick up the Activist Yellow Pages of Syria and just dial numbers? Why not tell the readers that those phones were supplied to you by the Syrian National Council? Also, if the Syrian regime supplies you with phone numbers of people, would you talk to them? Or would you consider anyone who is not on Qatar/Saudi Arabia side to be thug?
PS Neil MacFarquhar of the New York Times is known of his sharp wit. I once pointed out an error in one of his articles so he wrote to me: you are not Angry Arab, you are stupid Arab. Kid you not.
PS Neil MacFarquhar of the New York Times is known of his sharp wit. I once pointed out an error in one of his articles so he wrote to me: you are not Angry Arab, you are stupid Arab. Kid you not.
