Irresponsible reporting on Aleppo

Irresponsible reporting on Aleppo –

By Garo Armenian

Aleppo is about to be liberated. The government forces are finally able to liquidate the jihadist menace from East Aleppo. Yet the print and broadcast media in the United States keep misleading the public by their biased characterization of the realities on the ground.

The latest example is this morning’s Washington Post eulogizing the imminent “fall” of Aleppo and portraying it as the suppression of the “Syrian revolution”…What revolution? Aren’t these people ashamed of representing ISIS and AL QAEDA led extremist hordes as revolutionaries? Extremists who are directly supplied and trained by Turkey and naively supported by the Obama administration. Extremists who have been mutilating the peaceful city of Aleppo from their captive bases of East Aleppo and using the luckless residents there as their human shield.

The authors of the article are Liz Sly, Louisa Loveluck and Missy Ryan. Have they ever been in Aleppo? Have they seen a “Syrian revolutionary” in their lives? Do they care? They have reportedly benefited from input received from their colleagues in such cherished and comfortable locations as Stockholm and Istanbul… Where were they when Aleppo proper was being ruined by these so-called “rebels” and their incessant downpour of Turkey-supplied rockets; when entire families were being wiped out and homes, churches and schools were being destroyed?

A sinister game is being played in the region by Turkey and its regional allies all of whom being despotic and reactionary regimes. This is a huge problem which the new US administration will be confronting soon. It is a shame that the US media, by its distorted reporting of the events, is now part of the problem.