How To Report On Syria – WaPo Edition http://www.moonofalabama.org/2011/06/how-to-report-on-syria-wapo-edition.html

Do not visit the country. Report from Washington or Beirut.Start with a thesis you have no way to verify. Use it as headline. For example:Pressure on Syria’s Assad intensifies as protests persist 1a. Report of big demonstrations everywhere and of the government shooting demonstrators sourced solely to a shadowy anonymous group which claims to have organized them. 1b. Claim that the Syrian government “is not abandoning its strategy of relying on force to quell the dissent”.2a. Report of a big and peaceful demonstration in Hama where no one was shot.

2b. Ignore your claim in 1b and claim that this is a sign that the government has “given up trying to assert control”.3a. Report of various unsourced and likely false rumors.3b. Claim that the various unsourced and likely false rumors “give the government jitters”.3c. Quote someone from the Israel Lobby(!) in Washington(!) saying that the various unsourced and likely false rumors have the Syrian government “definitely panicking”.4a. Report of a government concession which was obviously not a government concession.4b. Have an opposition activist in Beirut(!) dismiss the government concession which was obviously not a government concession as being obviously not a government concession.

5a. Report that the Syrian leader is to make a televised address to the nation.5b. Claim that this is a sign of his “absence”.6. Quote the meaningless blustering of two anonymous U.S. officials in Washington(!).7a. Report on reports about Turkish government intervention intentions which the Turkish government has thoroughly dismissed as utter nonsense.7b. Claim that the opposition would like the reported Turkish government intervention which the Turkish government has thoroughly dismissed as utter nonsense.7c. Quote an opposition activist in London(!) saying that the reported Turkish government intervention intentions which the Turkish government has thoroughly dismissed as nonsense is a “nightmare for the Syrian regime”.

7d. Claim that the “nightmare” is the explanation for an unrelated Syrian government operation against a small armed local rebellion.8a. Repeat your reporting using various unsourced and likely false rumors.8b. Quote an opposition activist in Ohio(!) with some theory about the meaning of the various unsourced and likely false rumors.(Do NOT report of armed government opposition. Do NOT report that the demonstrations this Friday were smaller than last Friday. Do NOT report that the shadowy anonymous group’s website is registered and run in Germany by a German with a phone number in Berlin as contact information. Do NOT report that the group seems inactive as the last daily update on that site was eight days ago. )Rinse and repeat next Friday.

[MINE: 9.RELY ON US CLIENT REGIMES MEDIA MONOPOLY OUTLETS WICH PROMOTE P[GCC VIEWPOINTS OUT OF GULF AND IN LINE WITH AND OWNED BY US PUPPET MONARCHIES IN REGION,10. RELY ON OUTLETS LIKE ALJAZEERA WICH ARE CAUGHT CONSPIRING AGAINST SYRIA OFF AIR(AND WHOS REAL JOURNALISTS HAVE SINCE QUIT IN PROTEST THEREOF)..11. CITE AP,REUTERS,BLOOMBERG,WSJ,AND GUARDIAN WICH ARE ALL 100% PRO CORPORATE AND ZIONIST CONTROLLED,DESPITE IGNORANCE OF MANY TO CONTRARY...

12 ,CITE STRATFOR ,DEBKA,SITE AND MEMRI WHILE YOU ARE AT IT,MIGHT AT WELL...LOL 13.CITE URUK.CRAP..IT FEATURES ALL OF D ABOVE AND INCLUDES PRO MONARCHY,PRO SHAH,ISRAELI BACKED KURDISH GROUPS AND SOROS TRAINED JOURNALISTS,AND A PLETHORA OF CIA FRONT GROUPS UDNER GUISE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS,AI,HRW,ETC..LOL