""Every
time I come to Syria I am struck by how different the situation is on the ground
from the way it is pictured in the outside world. The foreign media reporting of
the Syrian conflict is surely as inaccurate and misleading as anything we have
seen since the start of the First World War. I can't think of any other war or
crisis I have covered in which propagandistic, biased or second-hand sources
have been so readily accepted by journalists as providers of objective facts." " (thanks Sultan)