The Western media are key to Syria deceptions
NOVANEWS
The media are not a watchdog on power but the public relations arm of giant corporations pursuing their narrow interests in the Middle East
By Jonathan Cook
By any reckoning, the claim made this week by Al-Qaeda-linked fighters that they were targeted with chemical weapons by the Syrian government in Idlib province – their final holdout in Syria – should have been treated by the Western media with a high degree of scepticism.
That the US and other Western governments enthusiastically picked up those claims should not have made them any more credible.
Scepticism was all the more warranted from the media given that no physical evidence has yet been produced to corroborate the jihadists’ claims. And the media should have been warier still given that the Syrian government was ...