Talk:Reporting, censoring and propaganda in the Syrian Civil War

'Attacks on journalists'[edit]

In their report, Syria: Rampant Torture of Protesters, Human Rights Watch make over-the-top claims, such as 'Throwing peaceful protesters in dungeons, beating them, denying them access to the outside world, will only increase the chasm between Syria's rulers and its people'. Given this sounds more like wishful thinking from the US State Department, than a true account of events on the ground - should not Wikipedia handled such 'Human Rights' reports with extra care?

92.16.150.32 (talk) 20:22, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

‘A Gay Girl in Damascus’ comes clean[edit]

‘...News of her disappearance became an Internet and media sensation. The U.S. State Department started an investigation. But almost immediately skeptics began asking: Had anyone ever actually met Amina? On Wednesday, pictures of her on the blog were revealed to have been taken from a London woman’s Facebook page. And Sunday, the truth spilled out: The gay girl in Damascus confessed to being a 40-year-old American man from Georgia. The persona Tom MacMaster built and cultivated for years — a lesbian who was half Syrian and half American — was a tantalizing Internet-era fiction...' ‘A Gay Girl in Damascus’ comes clean, Washington Post, June 12, 2011

Indicating that - as long as it helped to paint Syria black - the mass-media would blindly and willingly accepted any old (US State Department?) BS. So would not this make a telling sub-section about the dangers of using propaganda as news? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.16.150.32 (talk) 21:28, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Funny the US can manage roll two pieces of propoganda into one. The gay propoganda and the syria war propoganda. Smk65536 (talk) 06:48, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merge[edit]

This should be merged with Media coverage of the Syrian Civil War. This article is better, but the title of the other is better than the one here. FunkMonk (talk) 13:55, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]