Usel rapportering

Vad undviker svenska media att rapportera om? Det mesta. Det förstår den som följer den brittiske krigsjournalisten Robert Fisks rapportering. Som här om västvärldens politiker. Eller här om striderna slår på minoriteter som palestinier och kristna.
... But what US administration would really want to see Bashar's atrocious archives of torture opened to our gaze? Why, only a few years ago, the Bush administration was sending Muslims to Damascus for Bashar's torturers to tear their fingernails out for information, imprisoned at the US government's request in the very hell-hole which Syrian rebels blew to bits last week. Western embassies dutifully supplied the prisoners' tormentors with questions for the victims. Bashar, you see, was our baby ...
Vore det inte klädsamt informera om även dessa perspektiv? Inte bara FNs agerande? Fisk intresserar sig för verkligheten, dvs vad det helvete som kallas inbördeskrig medför för människor. Här. Och här. Och här kan finns BBCs av Fisk så hyllade rapportering från ännu en krigsreporter.   
...We forget the "big" truth. That this is an attempt to crush the Syrian dictatorship not because of our love for Syrians or our hatred of our former friend Bashar al-Assad, or because of our outrage at Russia, whose place in the pantheon of hypocrites is clear when we watch its reaction to all the little Stalingrads across Syria. No, this is all about Iran and our desire to crush the Islamic Republic and its infernal nuclear plans – if they exist – and has nothing to do with human rights or the right to life or the death of Syrian babies. Quelle horreur! ...