RWarehall: Mainstream Media. This Canadian journalist has been to Allepo 6 times, speaks Arabic, talked to the people, talked to the refugees as they were liberated. Points out any number of claims that are just not true.
Zjeraar: I always get this itch when I hear the cliché that the mainstream media somehow aren't capable of covering the real news or are keeping some kind of agenda as soon as an "independent" reporter comes along telling a different story. My question then is: What makes one choose this one reporter over dozens of on-the-scene reporters working for known news outlets?
I googled around a bit and quickly found that a couple of her very bold claims, claims you are referring to, are, as it seems,
simply incorrect.
Did you even read what you replied with? So, let me get this straight...the Syrian Army supposedly bombed that hospital, yet it's open for business 2 weeks later? And in the very article cited, the building across the street was hit (and the hospital was treating the victims) and then an adjunct "a few buildings down" from the hospital was hit, but again not the hospital itself...despite Snopes claiming otherwise...
When I see a report that the Syrian Army bombed a hospital, I get the idea the hospital was actually bombed and destroyed, not that a couple of nearby buildings were hit and there was maybe a bit of collateral damage. This actually supports her contention that satellite imaging showed no damage to the hospital after the bombing. It's not even clear whether the hospital ever shut down depending on which source one looks at, that ranges from, it didn't to it couldn't even possibly re-open because it was completely destroyed (which we know is untrue).
Do you not see how someone might see the MSM report on that bombing as a little suspect under those circumstances? Note how Snopes didn't piece that together...and I pulled that strictly from their quotes and links...
I'm not even sure why Snopes talks about the election as if that part is somehow false too given that they seem to agree that 88.7% voted for Assad but that somehow that only 73% of people voting makes all the difference? Didn't we just have an election where only half the people voted? And isn't 88.7% times 73% almost 65%?
Given that Snopes chose to be quite one-sided with their claims even going so far as to compare this to some Sandy Hook claim, I'm not sure Snopes is quite the reliable source you claim it to be. Their coverage seems far from neutral on this issue...
And here are the quotes from "Doctors Without Borders" reports which they linked...
“The attack on Al Quds hospital has destroyed one of the last remaining places in Aleppo in which you could still find humanity."
"the hospital was destroyed by at least one airstrike which directly hit the building, reducing it to rubble."
Does this sound like a hospital that is back in business two weeks later per Snopes? Or still treating victims from the building next door? Or more exaggeration? Doesn't this prove the claims that the MSM misreported the facts?
It appears to me that Snopes used a misreported news story to debunk the claims of misreported news...