Reblogged from Prof. Tim Hayward. Also strongly recommend his:
-Amnesty International on Syria – at it again!
https://timhayward.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/amnesty-international-on-syria-at-it-again/
-How We Were Misled About Syria: Amnesty International
https://timhayward.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/amnesty-internationals-war-crimes-in-syria/
Tim Hayward
Difficulties faced news organisations attempting to cover events in the war in Syria, particularly in the eastern part of Aleppo when under siege. Western journalists had stopped even trying to enter that area for fear of being kidnapped, or worse, at the hands of one or other of the armed factions holding the area. International relief agencies and NGO’s were not to be found on the ground either, for the same reasons.
This is one of the two main problems for media coverage of Syria that Eva Bartlett highlighted at a UN press conference in November 2016 when talking about her first hand experience of conditions in Aleppo.[1] Asked by a journalist from a mainstream publication why she seemed to be challenging ‘all these absolutely documentable facts that we’ve seen from the ground’, she pointed out that he was referring to a hearsay narrative, not facts, because ‘sources…
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