How Western reporters in Beirut operate

The operation is very simple.  Hariri press office works closely with the exile Syrian opposition in Beirut.  Hariri press office provides translators and handlers to the arriving Western reporters in Beirut.  They also provide them with phone numbers of "activists" in Syria, and with Skype addresses.  As for analysts? They roll out for them the right wing figures of March 14 coalition.  In this article by NYT correspondents in Beirut, the far right-wing March 14 professor, Mr. Nader, is asked to analyze Syrian developments.  The operation is rather clumsy.  Don't you need to make it a bit more subtle?