Assad's death squads have had a busy few weeks. But don't expect the BBC to tell you

Telegraph ^ | 6/13/11 | Michael Weiss

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As the Syrian city of Jisr al-Shughour emptied its streets at the weekend, with 5,000 refugees having fled to Turkey and another 6,000 sat waiting at the Syrian-Turkish border, Western audiences were treated to the following howlers by Syrian state media: This humanitarian crisis is really the largest spontaneous family reunion in history. Reem Haddad, the ginger stoogette of the Assad regime, told the BBC on Friday: “A lot of them find it easy to move across because their relatives are there. It’s a bit like having a problem in your street, and your mum lives in the next street

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I wonder why the non-Kool-Aid drinking media in the UK isn’t more anti-BBC?

NPR doesn’t have 10% of the reach or power that the “Beeb” has in the UK, but US conservatives opposition to NPR has been clear and consistent. Why doesn’t the same happen in the UK? Are conservatives in the UK, like those at the Telegraph, so intimidated by Gov’t sponsored political-correctness that only a few brave individuals will say a few words in opposition?