Aljazeera on Syria

"the Qatari-owned pan-Arab news channel that the government despises for its sympathetic stance on the insurgency..." Sympathetic stance? Are you kidding me? Aljazeera is now well beyond the sympathetic stance.  It has for long been more in the business of agitation and mobilization and almost recruitment.  If only you know Arabic to watch it. If only you can watch the language of the channel that you are describing.