Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
Never seen such an extreme propaganda war as in the case of Syria!
The killings of the rebels are reported as killings of the government....
The creepy thing is that LOTS of people obviously support the current government, or the other side would have won over a year ago. Whole cities and ethnic groups, no doubt about it.
The same was against Iraq in 1990-91 and in 2002-2003, against Serbs during the whole decade from 1991 to 1999 and in many other cases. Unfortunately, it's a norm, not an exception. The goal of media is not to inform the people, but to change their mind in a necessary way.
Kudos to Russia for staying impartial and not jumping on the propaganda bandwagon.
Russia is not completely impartial. It sells weapon to the Syrian government and it blocks all the resolutions against Syria in the UN. The media cover of the events is rather pregovernmental too.