Tuesday, December 13, 2016

The correspondent-activist: when it comes to Syria, there is no media; there is only propaganda

Nothing has harmed the media (East and West) like the introduction of the category of correspondent-activist. This may have been propagandistically introduced by Aljazeera in 2011 and was copied by Western and Arab media.  I have criticized it in the Western press and the GCC media, but make no mistake about it: it is now a feature of correspondents who are loyal to the Syrian rebels and who are loyal to the Syrian regime alliance.  I saw a correspondent for the Iranian regime `Alam TV, Husayn Murtada (who I had clashed with before on social media) today and he was acting with such joy and gloating in covering East Aleppo.  This is a sample of his work.  When it comes to Syria: there is no media; there is only propaganda.